People Discuss Awkward Positions Someone Else Has Put Them In
#7 An Unwanted Tattoo And An Unwanted Situation
I was working as a paramedic, and I was starting an IV on this older lady who had a thick Eastern European accent. I was finishing up, and she made a comment about my tattoos. She then said something about her own, so I asked what tattoo she had. She looked me straight in the eyes and said, “Well it was something I didn’t want to get.” I started to connect the dots — she was just about the right age to have been held in a concentration camp. All of a sudden the room turned cold. I didn’t know what to say.
