Think Before You Compliment Ink

(I work in a chocolate shop in my local shopping centre, and every so often I have to stand outside with a tray of samples and vouchers to give customers. One day, in the middle of the day, a guy with a super cool tattoo of interlocking geometric shapes comes up to where I am with the tray.)

Me: “There’s your chocolate, sir. By the way, I really love your tattoo! It’s very cool.”

Customer: “Thanks, it was the first tattoo I got, actually.” *pauses for a second* “Hey! I got an awesome tattoo the other day. Here; let me show you!”

Me: “Sir, that’s not necessa—“

(The man then turned around and pulled down his pants — in the middle of a crowded shopping centre — to show me a large tattoo of a woman’s face right on his butt. I don’t hand out samples outside anymore.)