*** Note: We didn’t do this!

"I'm certainly not the first person to get drunk and get a tattoo. Many people before me have awoken from a drunken haze to see ink in their skin that they did not remember getting.

However, in my situation it proved to be a pretty big deal.

My friends and I were having a few drinks, discussing various things that we fear. After a few hours and quite a few drinks, I confessed to them that I was deathly afraid of spiders -- to the point that I run away like a little girl when I see one.

They thought it was the funniest thing they had ever heard, and could not believe it to be true. I spent the next hour trying to explain to them what it was like for me living with this fear.

My friend Paul informed me that during his last semester of psychology he learned that the best way to overcome a phobia is to expose yourself to it all the time, and what better way to do that then to have one tattooed on my skin?

Read: Tattoo Regret -- The Phobia - Asylum