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These Care Home Residents Spent Lockdown Drinking And Getting Tattoos

These Care Home Residents Spent Lockdown Drinking And Getting Tattoos

Can we move in?

Lucy Devine

Lucy Devine

Staying at home during lockdown had its challenges, but most of us got through it by baking banana bread, watching Tiger King and sitting through Zoom quizzes.

But residents at an assisted living home in Texas seem to have had the most fun of all, and whiled away the hours boozing and getting temporary tattoos!

The Wesley House Assisted Living - which houses 30 residents - went all out, calling in a pop up tattoo studio from Amazon and buying buckets of booze and ice.

Writing on Facebook, they said: "This quarantine has got us going wild! Had a few drinks and got tattoos!"


And the pictures are amazing, showing all the different residents with their temporary inks. People have been so obsessed with the idea that the post has racked up over 14,000 comments and over 100,000 shares.

One person commented: "This is the cutest thing I have ever seen. So thankful for those people that spend time and effort to brighten the days of others."

And another said: "I absolutely love this! Such a great event, so much fun was had. You can see the happiness in their eyes."

Speaking to KSAT, Wesley House explained they hadn't had a single coronavirus case so far.


"We are lucky to not have had a COVID case, but still have to comply with state restrictions on our activities," they said.

"All of our employees help during activities, so that makes residents more open to participating as well. We are trying to keep their lives as normal as possible during this difficult time for them.

But the tattoo party isn't out of the ordinary for the assisted living facility, which often organises amazing events and celebrates special occasions for the residents.


Earlier this month, they celebrated National Root Beer Float Day with a huge pop up ice cream parlour. There were floats, ice cream sundaes and banana splits.

They also recently hosted a farmer's market, a Christmas in July event, regular beauty salon days and endless birthday parties!

Wesley House also said if their tattoo post reached 100,000 likes by midnight (which it has) then the facility's activity director will get pied in the face by residents! We can't wait for that...

Seriously, can we move in?

Featured Image Credit: Wesley House Assisted Living/Facebook

Topics: Life News, lockdown