It is quite strange how we jump to conclusions about people and places.

A couple of weeks back I remember telling readers about how Blackpool was now full of people with ‘tattoos and shell suits’.

I promptly got a letter (with pictures may I add) from a lady by the name of Ms Mullen (we are not on first name terms yet) who pointed out that it was in fact wrong to say anything about people with tattoos and shell suits because generally not everyone was the same.

She in fact had two tattoos and a shell suit and she would consider herself to be a ‘decent and law-abiding citizen’.

The term ‘bad tattoos and bad shell suits’ would have been a more fitting term to use.

But then I started thinking.

Yes, I suppose she was correct and we all have a certain view of people, and we kind of make up our minds about things.

But would I not be making a problem for those who have ‘bad tattoos and bad shell suits’?

I am sure there are people with bad tattoos and bad shell suits who are decent people but find themselves being criticised for no reason whatsoever.

In fact simply suggesting people with any sort of tattoos are trouble-makers is wrong in itself.

I started taking a look at my own life.

I sometimes take to the street wearing an unironed shalwaar kameez with the ‘nara’ (rope thing that holds the pants up) clearly visible. The curry stain on my chest doesn’t do me any favours either.

Sometimes I get mistaken for a trouble-maker.

I guess people should look beyond the attire and dress sense and see that generally most folk are either good people... bad people or somewhere in between.

In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter what a person looks like or is wearing.

What matters is whether they have the decency to admit when they are wrong.

Not that I ever had a bad vibe coming from someone with a tattoo. On the contrary.

No shell suit, shalwaar kameez wearing, bloke with a tattoo and a curry stain on the front has ever forced me to pay them a percentage of my hard-earned money and then spent that money on his back garden or moat.

And to really rub my face in it, he or she wants me to vote for them again next year!

People, I think it’s those people who wear suits we should be wary of.