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title and I was like, my word I am intrigued.

It's from Suspicious Fruit 243 and says,

Might the Asshole for Refusing to Tattoo at my cousin's wedding?

Throw away because I'm not sure if my family uses Reddit. Loll. So a little to my background.

I am a tattoo artist. I've done an apprenticeship

the first year of tattooing. I work as a tattoo artist for four years now and I opened a studio

recently. Me and my family are invited to a wedding that is taking place in another state.

My cousin is marrying and we got the invitation a few months ago.

Time has moved forward and now the wedding is in a week already.

Out of the blue, my cousin, let's call him Matt, text me with something along the lines of.

We're going to tattoo me on my wedding day. I was a bit confused as I never even thought of

bringing my equipment since I also didn't plan a guest spot or anything.

Guestpot is a tattoo artist working at another studio for a few days or weeks, mostly in a different

area to grow the clientele. I jokingly asked if he has a machine, as I still hoped that he wasn't

serious. He then just asked if I don't have one, and that one machine wouldn't take up that much

space to take with.

I replied that I didn't plan on bringing my equipment, that in fact contained more than

just a machine, color, hygiene stuff, stencils, that's the purple stuff you put on the skin,

then trace the tattoo with actual needles, etc.

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