I recently modified my old panther tattoo I first had done as a teenager, as a dig at my ex-wife and her family who are mad keen Brisbane Broncos supporters.My ex-brother-in-law had gotten a panther tattoo when we were teenagers, and I thought it was so cool that I got one done a week after he did by the same tattooist.
I was going out with his sister at the time and when I showed her mother my new panther tattoo she gave me a big lecture about how she hated tattoos and that if any of her sons came home with a tattoo like that, she would kick them out of the house:-)
She didn't find out for another 6 months that he had tattoos and that his tattoo was the inspiration for my panther tattoo:-P
The Broncos are my least favourite NRL team out of the lot, and ironically, they entered the NRL the year I got married in '88 when I was already a mad keen Sharks supporter. So mad in fact that my wedding was planned out in a black, white and blue colour scheme:-)
As was my engament party the year before that.
My youngest son who is also a mad Sharks supporter offered to pay my way to Vegas to watch the Sharks play the Panthers in Round 1 of the 2025 NRL season for letting him move into the spare room in my unit rent free. So, we're in the process of sorting that trip out now. And since I was getting a Brisbane Lions tattoo to celebrate the Lions AFL grand final win, I decided to come good on a bet I had with a Panthers supporter friend of mine when last year I told him I would get the 2023 scoreline tattooed under my old panther tattoo if the Panthers beat the Broncos in the 2023 GF:-) The funny thing was that the day I went to get my tattoos done I decided to park under the cinemas, as I planned on seeing a movie after I had my tattoos done, but unfortunately I was told they couldn't do my tattoos that day, as they were booked out, and that I would have to book another day/s to have them both done.
When parking my car under the cinemas that day, a car pulled out and I drove into the vacant space only to see a massive BRONCOS sticker across the back window of the car in front of me:-)
After I had booked my tattoos to be done, I bought a ticket to see 'Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice' again and a trailer for the new 'Lion King' movie came on before the movie started:-) The Good Mourning Podcast is Back and on September 6th?🎤👻🦋I had actually planned to only watch 'Megalopolis' that day, after thinking I would be having at least one tattoo done that day when I was heading down that way, but with time to kill it was good to have the chance to watch 'Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice' again. Francis Sunk All of His Own Money on Megalopolis?💰💸🤑 |
| My lunch at the cinema between movies:-) |
I just wrote the day off as my FATE:-)
Another funny thing that happened was that when I got back to my car after watching both movies, I heard swallows chirping above me and when I looked up realized that I had parked my car under the swallows' nest, which explained the bird crap over my windscreen and roof. Ironically the co-captain of the Brisbane Lions, Lachie Neale has a pair of swallows tattooed on his shoulder:-)
I don't plan on getting swallows tattooed on me, but I am considering a dragon tatt for my right forearm, as I was born in the Year of the Dragon and have now completed one 60-year cycle of the Wood Dragon. Life is a journey and not a destination, as they (and I) say, and one of those destinations on the journey for me seems to be Las Vegas in 2025;-)
A sticker and a keyring I bought at the tattoo shop the day I booked my tattoos:-) Opening PANDORA's Box?🃏🪔💡🦁 🏆 |
| Just wishful thinking, you say?-) |
