Jamie: mum, how old do you have to be before you can get a tattoo?
Me: 18...why? Do you want one?
J: yep.
Me: what are you going to get?
J: I don't know, I'll have to think about it.
Me: well you've got 6 years to think about it...and just make sure it's something you really want.
J: hmmm...
Me: and no girls names...so many people get their boyfriend or girlfriend tattooed and then they break up.
J: then they have to have it lasered off right?
Me: yes, which hurts more I've heard, or covered up. But choose wisely, that's why it took me so long to get mine, I was never sure.
J: and you have 5 now right?
Me: yes.
J: and that one's for dad?
Me: yes.
J: I still don't know what I'm getting.
Me: you can get my name tattooed you know...'mum.'
J: I'm not doing that!
Me: why not?
J: what if you and dad divorce?
Me: what?!
J: I can't have your name on me if you and dad divorce.
Me: but I'd still be your mother...I wouldn't be divorcing you.
J: who would I live with if you and dad divorced?
Me: uh...probably me.
J: when would we see dad?
Me: on the weekends?!
J: we wouldn't see him a lot then. *thinks* wait, we don't see him much now anyway. It's okay, I'm already used to it.
Me: okay...