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TIFU by getting my name as a scar.

So when i was in 4th grade one day me and my friend were joking around in class and thought it would be a fun idea to make a makeshift tattoo on our arms.

So he tore a piece of paper from his books and it was like one of those books that had like hard paper. He folded the paper again and again into a pyramid like shape with the end very sharp. I thought it wouldn't work because after all it's just paper.

So my name starts with a 'V' and 'I' and i thought I'll get that on my right arm vertically in big block letters because i thought that was cool.

He started drawing the V on my right arm with the paper 'tattoo gun'. Now my skin is very soft and breaks easily so the first attempt he made it broke skin and it showed the outline of what he drew on my skin.

I thought it would just be a skin bruise that'll heal quickly so i said go on even though it hurt like hell. After the V he went for the I and it hurt a lot but it worked.

Then the teacher arrived and we had to stop the 'tattooing'. That day at home i realised that the skin bruise had gotten worse and the V and I had swollen and it hurt like crazy. After a week the wound had fully healed and it to my horror i see the V and I as a scar on my skin.

I'm 20 years old and i still have a letter V and I scar on my right arm.

Tl:Dr Friend and i used paper to get my name tattooed in school, got infected and gained a scar with my letters.

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