Lunchtime observations

We had lunch at Shorty Small’s in the Mall at Turtle Creek and had a little time to kill afterward, so we went to Barnes & Noble so Maria could browse the quilting magazines.

I was wandering around the magazine section when I caught sight of a guy in a sleeveless t-shirt who had a motorcycle tattooed onto his right bicep.

On closer inspection, I realized it was a BMW. While tattoos are commonplace on bikers, this is only the second BMW motorcycle-related tattoo I’ve seen in nearly 30 years of involvement with the marque. The only other one was a BMW roundel tattooed onto a guy’s arm that I saw at the old BMW Motorcycles of Indianapolis back in the early 1990s on East 52nd Street.

“Excuse me, but is that a BMW R90S on your arm?” I asked him.

“No, it’s an R100/7,” he replied, somewhat surprised.

Turns out he’s had it for a lot of years. The odometer broke so he has no idea how many miles are on it. He’s making payments on a new Kawasaki, so his wife is prodding him to sell the BMW.

But he’ll probably always have the tattoo.

As you can see, he consented to a photo of his bicep.

I also noticed a magazine called Arkansas Bride with a cover picture  that doesn’t look anything like the image that comes to mind when you say that name.

We also noticed that a crew is hard at work on scaffolding in front of the former Circuit City store, presumably peeling off the old facade and the Circuit City logo to make way for the trademark Best Buy signage.