This establishment is all sorts of WRONG. While I have had little interaction with any other employees, this Joe character is perhaps one of the most UNSAVORY and HATEFUL individuals I have ever come into contact with....
Venturing to Black Lotus in search of a new nose stud, I arrived to an empty tattoo parlor with my male friend. Happily and kindly greeting the man at the counter (Joe), I asked politely if I could survey the nose jewelry. Dismissively, he walked away, and growled "In a second". I waited for FIFTEN MINUTES, watching in confusion as this creep shuffled aimlessly about his ghost town of a parlor, pushing paper and disappearing into the back. I left shaken, but assumed that, perhaps, I had encountered this individual on a bad day.
Willing to give him and his well priced establishment a second chance, I hesitantly arrived back at the parlor in need of a tongue piercing. Greeted in a semi-friendly manner by Mr. Joe, I was relieved that my suspicions appeared to be correct, and that this man, although moody, was actually willing to help me. Once again, I was wrong. After a brief probing of my tongue, my request for a tongue puncture was brutally rebuffed by him. According to the villain, I had a mystery vein that would most surely be sliced open in the event of a piercing, and, I quote, "it is impossible for you to ever get a tongue pierce". Dejectedly, I left, upset about my bad luck (apparently, this supposed vein I possessed was an extreme rarity).
Saddened but still interested in an alternate modification, I ventured to Santa Rosa's Evolution, requesting a septum pierce. While lamenting my desired tongue piercing, my friendly and welcoming female piercer crinkled her eyebrows as I enlightened her to my rare vein condition. It turns out, as she looked at my tongue, that I had no such condition and I ended up leaving Evolution with a brand new tongue ornament.
So, Joe is not only a terrible businessman, he is a liar. He fails at life.
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