Robert, I totally understand your reasonings for feeling it is time to hang it up.  Only you can decide when that time is right.  Thank you, my friend, for all the years of service.<br /><br />Jim, I totally agree.  I am really going to make more of an effort to not judge people for it - I will be the first to admit that I have been really bad about that.  I don&#39;t understand it, my son was not raised around anyone who was tattooed.  My husband has always been in the corporate world and is fairly &quot;GQ&quot;, and most of our friends are the same, and our other son is the same way, so I really don&#39;t know where his fascination for it comes from, but I guess some things aren&#39;t meant for me to know why, just to accept.  Not only, are they unattractive, in my opinion, but I know they hurt like the dickens.  I have been on the phone with my son while he was at work and I have heard people grunting and yelling in the background and when I have asked him about it, he just says that they are fine, just getting tattoed.  I personally, try to avoid all pain&#33;&#33;&#33;