Tats What it is

I had a very interesting thing happen on my way to a big concert held at the Boston garden earlier this month. 

We arrived in the Boston area a few hours early, in order to have some beers and dinner before the concert.  My wife was tasked (as navigator) to decide what bar/pub/restaurant we'd go to and make reservations if possible. 

The short version is that she decided we'd be just fine.  Lets see where we can seat when we get there.  Made even more fun when she found she had other friends going too, and thought we'd all get together. 

Needless to say, it can be a madhouse trying to get into any venue around the Garden if they are any good.  So, yeah, besides the fact there was also a Patriots game on...

We ended up at a fairly new place called Blakes. It was basically empty.  The beer was good, and the limited menu just fine for what we had.  I had nachos.

The best part was the bar tender.  We sat at the bar and watched him work.  It was pretty clear he was not very experienced, and neither were many of the other staff.  He also seemed on first blush Russian. 

Well we were wrong on that count.  He is Spanish.  We never asked what he was doing in Boston, probably in University. 

What was really interesting was that he had a large tattoo on his forearm.

It was the winged blood drop chapter symbol of the Blood Angels Chapter.

In color. 

Apparently he'd gotten it because his family always had "wings and blood" in the family iconography, so he'd asked the Tattoo artist to give him a tattoo with the symbols crafted together. 

At first, I then told him it was a notorious Boston gang symbol, which got the attention of the ladies at the bar.  He immediately looked around and covered it up.  Rolled the sleeve down...things got serious.

I then pulled the symbol up on my phone.  And it was an identical match of the first jpeg that a google search offers.

Needless to say the "blood drained out of his face".  He though he had an original design.

OK, it was mean. But I was ready to let is stay that way...

My wife then explained it was the Blood Angels symbol, and it was from a game.

The bar tender sighed relief.

He promised to look it up.  The girls all went back to their other conversations.

LOL.

Tats.

You just never know who has them...