In the silence, he says, “I didn’t think you’d be this upset.”Īfter a while, he says, “It wasn’t just a drunken whim. “On my arm,” he says, and touches his bicep through his shirt. Maybe during his school years he thought a tattoo would balance the geeky glory of academic achievement.

Any minute he’s going to laugh and say, “You should see your faces” because this has been a running joke for years, this idea of getting a tattoo – the hard man act, iron muscles, shaved head, Jason Statham, Ross Kemp.