| Which one tells the better story?? | | | | talking about the Misty May Treanor/ President Bush |
| We have all heard the quote, "Scars are just tattoos | | | | photo. Misty has three tattoos; one is on her lower |
| with better stories". But is that really true? | | | | back of the Roman numeral five along with initials (the |
| Is the story about how you fell off your bike and had a | | | | tattoo represents her favorite number and basketball |
| rock in your knee really better than the story told by a | | | | player Jason Kidd). |
| World War II veteran about how he got this tattoo | | | | Those details aside, if you have ever watched a |
| while stationed in some exotic place with his war | | | | match including May Treanor and her partner Kerri |
| buddies? I think the stories are two different beasts. | | | | Walsh, (or if you watched their interview on The Ellen |
| One is a story that is shared and related to others | | | | DeGeneres Show) you know that Kerri slaps her |
| often, the other is one that is sometimes kept only to | | | | behind after a good play. All President Bush was doing |
| that person and a select few because of the | | | | was a more appropriate way of doing that when he |
| memories it conjures up. If it is just the story we are | | | | visited their practice. I shudder to think what former |
| concerned with, I think it would be better to stick to the | | | | President Clinton would have done in that position. But |
| scar. | | | | back to the tattoos and scars... |
| However, there are different kinds of tattoo stories as | | | | I wonder if Misty enjoys the fact that everyone knows |
| well. The stories of a spring break down in Panama, a | | | | what her tattoos mean. We heard it all throughout the |
| family member or friend remembered forever or just | | | | Olympics, the one of her shoulder is in remembrance |
| one crazy night in college. Which story would we be | | | | of her mother Barbara May, the one in the famous |
| more interested in hearing? For the most part, I am | | | | photo also includes her grandmothers initials, and on her |
| guessing that it would be about the spring break or | | | | wrist is tattooed M2, a tattoo which she shares with |
| crazy night in college...because we never want to get | | | | her husband, Marlin's catcher Matt Treanor (but we |
| to close to people anymore and know something as | | | | didn't hear about that one...maybe because its not too |
| intimate as the story behind the anchor, initials and | | | | visible?) |
| dates that sometime adorn the bodies around us. | | | | Do we talk about the scars that Misty surely has from |
| Would it be so terrible to walk up to someone you | | | | all her years in sports? I haven't heard one thing about |
| know and ask them about the tattoo on their arm or | | | | any athletes or celebrities scars unless they were |
| leg? Sometimes you understand the meaning of the | | | | surgery and therefore the scar is 'job related'. You |
| tattoo by just looking at it but do you really understand | | | | don't hear that this scar is from climbing a tree in the |
| the reasoning behind the person getting it if you never | | | | backyard or this scar is from a little league baseball |
| take the time to ask? Most people are glad to share | | | | game. Why is that? |
| that information with you and most of the time; I bet | | | | Are tattoos that much more interesting than scars? |
| you will be surprised at how open individuals can be | | | | Does having a tattoo represent something make it |
| when you give them the chance. | | | | more important than the scar you got while sliding into |
| As we watched the Olympics this summer a lot of | | | | home to score the winning run? Who decides it is |
| tattoo talk was brought up by a certain photo. Yes, I'm | | | | more important? |
