mean street tattoo
tommy murphy
Website: newyorkcitytattoo.com
Profile: I've been tattooing since 1990 I co-own a shop in new york with Johann Florendo and another on the tiny island of bermuda I travel a lot so I like to keep my bags packed and my passport within reach at all times life is good "be good to tattooing and tattooing will be good to you!!" the first thing I learned in this biz!
last laugh
by mean street tattoo on Mar.09, 2009, under Stories
so I’m in the supermarket yesterday and I hear “hey tattoo guy!” where ever I go this seems to be my name, you too huh…anyway it’s this older woman who was in like a week before with her man she had him get Victoria”s! in script right above his crotch just sticking out of the belt line a bit she can’t wait to reach me at the end of the isle to tell me she broke up with him later that day, she found out he was cheating on her for over a year with a co-worker and wanted to get him back so now he has her name over his junk like it’s a billboard for a diner and he wants to sue her to have it removed! I just kind of stood there unamused and the only words I could find is “you bitch” as I passed her on my way to the checkout
one time I had a couple walk into the shop -this is a few years back- young and pretty they both could have been models, well they wanted to get each others names I explain the deal how there young it may seem like a good idea today but a year or two down the road they might not be so happy with the name of there ex on them they both demand I do it anyway.
you see where this is going right..he goes first her name real nice on his wrist as I am wrapping him up she just looks at us both and sez I changed my mind I don’t wanna do it, he loses it the start fighting in the front room it a busy weekend with tons of people in the shop so I go out and ask them to take it down the block, he shows up an hour later asking me about a cover-up cause they broke up and he hates that bitch! maybe the quickest anyone ever regretted there tattoo.
never use metal chairs
by mean street tattoo on Feb.07, 2009, under Stories
I was tattooing this girl, nice girl wonderful smile looking to get tattooed on her shoulder blade so I start working la de da de da just trucking along when I feel her get cold and clammy and just as I notice… slam her head drops now I have her sitting in a metal folding chair backwards -straddling the chair ya know- she passes out I grab her as quick as I can, this all happened in like seconds I pulled her up by her shoulders like a dead fish totally limp and bleeding from her mouth when she dropped her teeth smashed into the back of the chair when she came to all her top teeth were loose just kinda hanging there dangling I was freaking out trying to help her out all she wanted from me was to finish as quick as I could so she could goto the hospital I never saw her again nor have I ever use a metal chair to have them sit backwards in
uncomfortable girls
by mean street tattoo on Feb.06, 2009, under Stories
ok so I wanna know why there isn’t like 30,000 stories here yet? we all got a million… everyday I walk away from work with at least one good story… so let me start with an oldie
Back in the early 90’s I was working on st. marks in new york and I had these sweet looking girls come in the shop, four early 20’s hotties from north carolina real wholesome cornfed knockouts real small town girls who came to new york for a girls gone wild weekend adventure. We used to get a lot of that in that shop good girls from out of town looking to put a few skelton’s in there closet, and hell I was always open to be That Guy! one of the first things on most of these girls gone wild weekends was to get a tattoo and the cherry on top of that was to fuck the tattooist! I guess cause it always worked out that way… well enough back story so these girls come into the shop it’s late friday night and were looking to close but these chicks are way to hot to ask to leave me and my friend who was working the front were the only one’s still in the shop the all pick out what they want and I get to work all the tattoo’s are little bread and butter kanji’s ect. so the last girl to go is so smoking and kinda the ringleader blond with huge sweatermeat but when it get to be her turn she get all shy and is telling me she wants to put her kanji for love on her bikini line but is way to shy to pull her pants down this goes on for like almost half an hour now all the other tattoos were on wrist ankle shoulder ect. and her friends are cheering her on by now but she tells me she not that type of girl she is very involed in church and blaa blaa blaa so I’m getting pissed finally I turn and tell her “Ok baby this is the deal you take off your pants and everyone in the shop will strip down to there underwear I’ll do the tattoo in my underwear!” only kidding but as I turned around her friends are all stripping off there shit… I turned beat red looked at my boy rich and said somedays you gotta work harder then others huh? strip off my shit now everyone is standing in my room in there underwear just kinda waiting for the other shoe to drop I sat down and tattooed this chick half way through I see my boy take one of the girls off to another room… we sat talking about porno movies and what really turned them on during sex..I spent the next three days with that blond in my apt. she never got to see new york city beyond the walk back to my apt.

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