What's up you guys it is Travis and today I'm going to be telling you a
cautionary tale about my tattoo horror story, because I have made a lot of dumb
decisions in my life, but this is by far one of the dumbest, because it almost cost me my leg.
Please give this video a LIKE if you like tattoos or if you just like me because
I really do appreciate that. This story begins when I was 17 years old. I was
downtown in Denver, Colorado and I was with my cousin Erin. We were downtown. We walked
past this alley that on the ground there was a little piece of paper that said
glow-in-the-dark tattoos and I pick up this piece of paper and it is literally as
ghetto as it comes. It's not even a professional ad. It is back when
Microsoft Word still had WordArt. I don't know if you guys remember that. Give
this video a like if you remember WordArt. But it was literally like some guy
printed it off of his computer and threw the flyers around around downtown so obviously
this was a very legitimate establishment. So I call this number that's on the
flyer and this guy answers and instead of answering like a business it's someone
that goes
Hello? Hi my name is Travis, I was wondering if I could inquire about your
glow-in-the-dark tattoos? and instead of really telling me about the glow-in-the-dark
tattoos this guy just says, "If you're coming to my place to get tattoo then
you're going to have to get tattoo."
So basically he's telling me that if I want to go over and find out more about
this I have to get a tattoo, because he doesn't want me to waste his time so
obviously this seems like a really good idea. So I'm like yes sign me up!
My cousin is like yass! and so we're like yass! and she was like go b*tch and I
was like we're going b*tch and so we snapped our fingers until they're about
to fall off and we drive across town to the hood of Denver, Colorado where we're
going to get this tattoo. So I walk into this guy's apartment. I know it's
his apartment, because he also has more of that WordArt on the door that says like
Tito's tattoos or some sh*t that he printed off his computer and I was like yeah!
this is the place! So we walk inside and we're greeted by this guy who has this giant
scar going down his head like over here its super-massive and his wife comes and
she greets us with a tray of waters, which was very kind of her. It was
actually their kitchenware, which is very lovely kitchenware. So anyway we
walk and we meet the guy. We're sitting there and so he's like so you want to get that tattoo do you?
and I was like yeah and he's like okay well what do you want to get? Em I don't
know, because this is going on my body forever and I really didn't think about it very much
but like what should I get?
and then he sits there for a second. He leans back with his arms crossed and he
goes
You should get your sign.
That is a really good idea. I should totally get my
sign, because that's like super original no one's ever got the astrology sign
tattooed on their f**king body. Anyway, I'm an aquarius so I decided to get my Aquarius
sign tattooed on my body
this is the product of what that tattoo was, but as you guys can tell that it
doesn't really look so much like the Aquarius side but more like the Batman
symbol twice. So it's a sh*t tattoo. Now, I should probably mention that when I was
getting this tattoo the kind of ink that he was using to make it glow in the
dark actually from a f**king BIC pen. He literally takes off the cap of a Bic pen.
He pours into his canister and he started injecting this into my body as
he's giving me this tattoo. It hurts really bad
it's my first tattoo though so I thought i was being a little b*tch and so I was
like okay well this is fine just get through it. So I was trying to make conversation with
him so I was like sitting there cringing on the f**king couch and I'm like so how did
you start this business?
I just got out of prison like three months ago.
Oh prison! that's cool. What you do to get there? Like he was going to f**king Harvard law school
or something, but its prison Travis! its prison! what you think he did? I beat the
sh*t out of my wife. And I was like oh why did you beat the sh*t out of your wife? Because she
dropped a machete on my head.
oh
So this guy proceeds to tell me that he has a felony and so he couldn't get a job
so his idea of being innovative ways to start a tattoo business and I was one of
his first clients.
So anyway, I get this tattoo it's excruciatingly painful, but
we leave and we go about our merry way
So anyway there was this girl that I was dating at the time. She had lots of
tattoos all over her body and so I was excited cause I got my first tattoo so
being the super raging heterosexual that I was. I went over to her and was like, yes b*tch look
at my tattoo girl! She saw it and she's like whoa Trav it's not supposed to look like that.
Her reaction was not what I expected because she looked at my tattoo and
my tattoo was sunken in. Normally when you get a tattoo the part where you got
the tattoo should be raised. Mine was sunk in like it was branded in to me.
It looked like razor blades were used to just carve it into my skin.
On top of that there was a fluid leaking out of it, but I thought that was normal
so I was sitting there like with a little towel in my hand like just dabbing it
away just like it's no big deal just dabbing up this brown ass sh*t coming out of
my ankle and my girlfriend was like Trav it's not supposed to look like that
Now, obviously, that b*tch was jealous of my tattoo, because mine was probably ten
times better than hers and so I ignored her and I continue to go about
my merry way
well a few days pass and the leakage does not stop. Not only that, my ankle
starts getting swollen and so I was like oh shit this is some real shit like this
is a really good tattoo. Like my body is fighting this fabulosity that's being
tattooed onto my skin and so I limped back to the tattoo artist, because I
could barely walk at that point. I was like hey man this is my ankle looks like
right now. I can't really see the bones of my ankle anymore because it's so swollen
and I was just wandering like what I should do? and he just looks down at it for
a second looks back up and he goes that's because you're walking on it and so what
he does to help me in this situation is he picks up a stump, because that's what
he used to prop my leg up in the first place and he gives me this stump and so
I was like well thank you so much. That is so nice. Like this is a really good
stump. Like I can't believe how long it took you to chop this down and now you're
giving this to me so like that really means a lot so thank you. So I take this
stump and I hobble out of his apartment. You know just leaving so I keep my ankle
elevated as much as I can for the next few days. At that point the brown leakage
that's coming out of my ankle is turning into a white pus and it was really a
good time and I was really enjoying myself and again this girl that I was
talking to she looks at it and she's like Trav please come with me to the tattoo parlor
and though I knew that b*tch was jealous I was like okay you know I'll go to
tattoo parlor so that they can take a look at it and see that this is totally fine.
When I go to the tattoo parlor we show it to one guy who sit at the
counter and then he saw my ankle and he was like holy sh*t! Guys come look at this!!
Everyone comes over and looks at my ankle and they are like man that looks so bad, that is so f**ked up!
and I was like I know it does. I know it does
I'm really proud of what I did. So anyway over the next few
days the infection started getting worse and worse and worse and at that point
there was a redness that started spreading up my right
calf, but I should probably tell you guys that because I was 17, I was living
with my grandparents. Part of the reason why I got this tattoo on my ankle was because I
didn't want my grandma to see because I don't my grandma to be mad
So at that point it gets even worse because I am lying in bed and then I
wake up to my grandmother slapping me because my grandmother is old-school
Catholic right there and she don't f**k around! So anyway I wake up to my grandmother
slapping me on my back. Slapping me like what did you do to your body??
What is that on your ankle?? and so when I got out of bed, she threw some boxes
at me and she goes pack your stuff and get out! My ankle was so swollen and full of
fluid that I couldn't even put shoes on anymore so I'm wearing flip flops, but
anyway I pack up these couple of boxes. I walked out the front door and I'm
walking through the rain trying to figure out where I'm going to go. Next thing
I know as I'm walking down the street, not sure where I'm goning to go, my grandmother pulls
up next to me and from the window she yells get in the car! She takes me
straight to the hospital where the doctors are also as surprised about my
tattoo as everyone else was at that point. The doctors were pretty much just
like okay well you have this redness spreading up your major artery.
This is really bad. If this redness spreads any further up your leg, we're
going to have to take it off from the knee down. That made things real for the first
time and the doctors weren't really super overly sensitive about the topic.
They said it kind of matter of fact, but I was like wait a second what? Because I
didn't think that would be possible that getting a bad tattoo would almost have
to have my leg get amputated
So after that they gave me this super powerful antibiotic. If the redness had
spread any further up I was supposed to come at the hospital and they were going to
take off the leg. Thank the dear Lord Jesus above I took that medicine and by
the third day the redness started to go back down. Everything started to calm
down so I guess it fought off the infection that got inside my ankle
Anyway that concludes my tattoo horror story. I hope you guys enjoyed watching
if you did please give this video a LIKE. Also comment below and let me know about you
guys' tattoo experience and if it was a positive one or if it was as bad as mine was.
Thank you guys so much for watching and
we'll see you next time