Why Do I Keep Doing This?
The Piercing Pain Of Ear Torture
I pierced my left earlobe back in 1986. Didn't want that nasty hole that the shopping mall piercing gun made with the big-bore "training" stud, so I flamed a safety pin with my Zippo lighter, held ice cubes to my ear and then jabbed that sucker through. Inserted a tiny 14k gold stud, and that was that.
It healed clean, possibly due to my soaking 12 inches of cotton thread in isopropyl alcohol and dragging it through the hole twice a day. The resulting hole was small, almost unnoticeable when the stud was removed.
Wore the earring constantly over the next 10 years. The following 10 years was a bit more intermittent, what with having a real job and all. Everyone always said the hole would close up.
It never did, just got a bit narrower. Sometimes a LOT narrower. I'd forget about it for months at a time, then run across an old earring in a desk drawer and reinsert it for old times sake. Painful, but never any blood to indicate the hole had sealed up.
Today, a bit more of the same treatment, except I was fully expecting a leak of crimson, since it hurt like a mofo pushing that thing through. No blood. Guess that sucker's in there for good.
I wonder about when I just need to let it go. I know, every good pirate needs an earring, but I'd see that dude from 60 Minutes that died last year, 65 year old Ed Bradley with his little gold hoop, and thought he looked like a perfect tool.
So, I dunno. Maybe it's time to just pull the plug on ear accoutrements. What do y'all think?
I pierced my left earlobe back in 1986. Didn't want that nasty hole that the shopping mall piercing gun made with the big-bore "training" stud, so I flamed a safety pin with my Zippo lighter, held ice cubes to my ear and then jabbed that sucker through. Inserted a tiny 14k gold stud, and that was that.
It healed clean, possibly due to my soaking 12 inches of cotton thread in isopropyl alcohol and dragging it through the hole twice a day. The resulting hole was small, almost unnoticeable when the stud was removed.
Wore the earring constantly over the next 10 years. The following 10 years was a bit more intermittent, what with having a real job and all. Everyone always said the hole would close up.
It never did, just got a bit narrower. Sometimes a LOT narrower. I'd forget about it for months at a time, then run across an old earring in a desk drawer and reinsert it for old times sake. Painful, but never any blood to indicate the hole had sealed up.
Today, a bit more of the same treatment, except I was fully expecting a leak of crimson, since it hurt like a mofo pushing that thing through. No blood. Guess that sucker's in there for good.
I wonder about when I just need to let it go. I know, every good pirate needs an earring, but I'd see that dude from 60 Minutes that died last year, 65 year old Ed Bradley with his little gold hoop, and thought he looked like a perfect tool.
So, I dunno. Maybe it's time to just pull the plug on ear accoutrements. What do y'all think?
posted by El Capitan | 4:51 PM
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