Mother Renamed Her Son "Kelvin" After A Tattoo Artist Spelled "Kevin" Wrong
News - The one time you’d hope never to encounter a spelling mistake is when you’re getting your child’s name etched on your person. Tattoos, like children, are for life.
Unfortunately one Swedish mother fell victim to an embarrassing typo after her tattooist misspelled her son Kevin’s name as Kelvin.
But rather than let it get her down — and face an expensive, painful removal process — 30-year-old Johanna Giselhäll Sandström had an ingenious solution: She had her son’s name legally changed.
“I said I wanted the names of my children tattooed on me and I gave the artist their names. The artist drew the design and didn’t ask anything about the spelling so I didn’t give it any more thought.”
It wasn’t until later she noticed the glaring mistake.
She returned to the artist, who laughed and said there wasn’t anything he could do apart from issue a refund.
After looking at tattoo removal, she and her husband came to the decision that the smarter option would be to rename the boy, who was aged almost two at the time.
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That is an A++++ response to getting your son’s named incorrectly inked on your skin for life. That has to be the best example of taking chicken shit and making chicken salad. By the way, I love chicken salad. The deli across the street from the office has a pretty good cranberry chicken salad, but they use way too much mayo. They could reduce the amount of mayo in it by 15% and it’d be terrific. I still get it here and there but sometimes it makes me feel like I’m dipping my finger into the mayonnaise jar like Puck did to the peanut butter. That’s a reference from 1994 for those keeping track at home.
But I digress, changing your kid’s name to match your wrong tattoo to make it right is awesome. Especially because some parents spend months and months laboring and debating over what to name their kid. One parent wants it named after their great uncle, but the other parent thinks it’s important to name it after their nana. So they finally compromise and pick out a name, in this case “Kevin”, only to change it on a whim to “Kelvin” after a tattoo artist who was very interested in science but didn’t have the work ethic to make it in the field added an L to the poor kid’s name.
To be fair, Kelvin isn’t even that bad of a name. Kelvin Banjamin is pretty sweet. Remember when he got fat?
Still cracks me up.