"rosa " wrote:
sorry I jumped to a bad conclusion like that. hope you’re feeling well and that the tat is healing nicely

Don’t sweat it. I never thought about it, but they DO look like cigarette burns (or cigar burns….some are bigger than others). You should have seen them a couple of years ago before my docs found a medicine that worked. It looked like flesh eating bacteria. Blech.
And thanks for the ink props. Everybody who sees it smiles, even though hardly anyone knows from where it originated. Well, almost everyone smiles. My father-in-law didn’t. 
Funny thing, my 10 year old son goes to a private Catholic school. About a week before I got it done, his art teacher stopped me on back to school night and quietly said, "didn’t I see you at the Dinosaur Jr. show a couple of months ago??" Heh.