Hi there,
At A Glance Author Eddy Contact red_raver_eddy@yahoo.com Location Albany Georgia My name is Eddy, I am nineteen years old and have always loved piercings but never had done what I wanted to because of the fact that my parents would dismember me so I had to wait till I moved out to have anything done. I'm currently serving in a branch of the armed forces that doesn't allow any piercing of any kind. This wasn't a problem till I started seeing my friends and others with what I want done. Before joining I had a 10 gauge in my left ear and was planning on getting it up to a six but then I decided to join putting the piercing to a halt temporarily. Since being in I've plotted and schemed on all the ways I could get both ears pierced and in the future have planned to get 4 orbitals, two eyebrows, and possibly cheeks done but that's going to come over the next 6 months or so. This story is about getting my right earlobe pierced, since the left one is still open. Now this may seem rather insignificant to most people seeing as it's a really common piercing but it's a funny and messed up story I'll never forget and hopefully someone will read this and realize how stupid you'd be to try anything along the same lines. Enough foreplay, on with the story.
Myself and my friend had been talking about getting our ears pierced and how we could get away with it in the service and after milling it over for a couple weeks we decided to get down to business so we headed out to a local tattoo and piercing studio hear in Southern Georgia and then we went out and found some small clear spacers to put in. Now we assumed this to be a very easy task of simply removing the stud and inserting the plug, but not as luck would have it.
First we had to cover and conceal our freshly pierced lobes so we wore nit caps pulled down over our ears as we drove through the gate and handed the MP our id's and we snuck into my friends room where the great switcheroo was to take place. We got in there and we decided I should go first because I didn't really feel like hearing him whine quite yet so out with the stud and in with the... "This isn't gonna work." He says. I replied "Make it work." So he pushed and stretched on my earlobe as it only swelled and started hurting more. After about 2 minutes, which seemed more like twenty to me, we decided the hole wasn't big enough for the clear hole-stays and attempted to insert the stud again so I could at least regroup and think up a better plan, and what do you know, the stud wouldn't go back in either. Frustrated and confused we sat for a minute contemplating our stupidity and the Washington casualties we sacrificed paying for the work when we were surprised by my friends roommate and his girlfriend who happened to work at Claire's, mind you they are the gun-toting evil preppy-piercers but hey I figured she could help. So I explain the situation to her and she asks for a needle and commences to run it over a lighter, sticks an ice-cube on my lobe, replaces the ice cube with a beanie baby she had on her key chain and to stabbin' she went. Now that part wasn't bad at all it was the next bright idea we had that sucked.
Don't ask me why but for some strange reason we thought of that newer Robin Hood movie where the guy heats up the axe to cauterize the wounds dealt to thieves when they were brought to justice. So with the needle still in my ear lobe my friend puts a lighter up to it and sparks it...I yelled so loud I think the guy who pierced us out in town heard me. I have never felt a pain like that before in my life, needless to say it did little to nothing as far as progress goes and after all that, the stupid clear plug still wouldn't fit so I returned to my room to lick my wounds and sleep on it. The next day I went to work with a swollen ear lobe, throbbing pain, a twenty-five dollar dent in my wallet, and no friggin' hole.
So please don't get a piercing if you can't clean and maintain it properly and always listen to the good people at the piercing palaces that know there line of work a whole lot better than the piercee and don't worry about the pain of a professional piercing cause it's nowhere near as bad as having a red-hot needle burning into your earlobe. In two months I'm out of the Military and will send in my pics of the new work I'm having done.
Love, Peace, and Piercings,
~Eddy