The other day I helped with an event at church, a drive-in reunion communion.
It was part of our pieces of any group service. Chris Woodson had us helping out in the parking lot directing cars. It was still full on daylight in the early afternoon so there was plenty of sun and very few clouds. So had my adventure hat with the wider brim and I pulled on my son protection sleeves and went about helping.
Things went well. Chris Woodson came out to check in with me and said everybody thinks I look like I'm hot and sweaty. I laughed and said I actually felt very cool temperature wise and was having no issues with the sun.
As the event went on got done with communion and served Brewster's ice cream to everybody. And one of the ladies in the line commented that she thought I looked like I had tattoos up and down my arms with my sleeves.
That made me remember the Halloween back a few years ago. It was at harvest point church and we were having a trunk or treat event. I decided I would go ahead and dress up were doing our of Van and handing out candy and decorating for the trunk or treat event. I dressed up with the mullet wig, rose-colored sunglasses, and that I had found sleeves that look like actual tattoos and pulled them on both my arms. I had on blue jeans and a short sleeve shirt otherwise. 10 issues.
But nobody would come near me! Nobody would even look me in the eye. It was so weird all as a guy I go through some of that, but with the weird hair and the tattoos all up and down my arms it was so much worse. And so strange that nobody even recognized me.
I say that because I see so many people nowadays getting tattoos actual tattoos up and down their arms and making sleeves. And I feel bad for them. Because they will be ostracized and looked down upon. And when the tattoos start to give out and sag as they get older and fat or skinny and saggy. They'll just look awful and they're stuck with all that think embedded in their dermis beneath their epidermis.
But the Halloween thing was fun and I I did buy some sun protective sleeves that look like actual tattoo sleeves so I may have to try them next time. See if I get the same reaction!
