About a month ago I scammed two tickets to the Cubs home opener. On the way to Chicago my buddy Andy bet me that the Cubs would win and I said no way. Come on, it's the Cubbies for Christ sakes! Andy said if the Cubs win then I have to get my nipples pierced and if they lost he'd get pierced. Believing in the great tradition of the Cubs, I truly believed that Andy would be sitting in the chair getting pierced.
At A Glance Author THPMKE When A month ago Artist Don't know his name Studio AAA Tattooing Location Chicago So we go to the game and have a blast. The end of the game comes and CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! Oh SHIT! Well, we make bets like this all of the time and neither of us ever follows through. So, I wasn't too worried. Andy kept needling me (no pun intended) about getting pierced. I finally said that if we come across a piercing shop that I'd do it. Come on, there won't be a piercing shop between Wrigley Field and my car. Nope. I'm wrong.
We come across a place called AAA Tattooing and Andy wouldn't shut up. I finally said OK, I'll do it thinking that Andy wouldn't actually let me go through with it. Boy was I wrong!
We walked in and Andy blurts out that I'm here to get my nipples pierced. Some woman said that we'd have to wait for a bit and someone would help us out. We started to look around the shop at the pictures, jewelry, etc. It sort of looked cool but I'm not one who likes pain AT ALL! I asked Andy if he's going to make me go through with this and he said, "HELL YES!" I finally decided what the hell? I'm only young once and I never do things like this.
A guy finally comes over and asks which one of us is looking to get pierced. I said that I'm. He took us back and explained everything about getting pierced, including the aftercare, the options, sensations, etc. The only thing I asked was if it was going to be painful. The guy said that people tolerate pain differently and that it's up to my body. Great because I hate pain.
So the guy tells me to take off my shirt and he'd get ready. Andy was looking at me like what the hell are you doing? Honestly I don't think he thought I'd actually go through with this.
The guy started to get out his "tools" and I really tried not to look at them. I just kept thinking of the long needle the dentist uses for Novocain and didn't want to see anything like that going through my nipples! He cleaned my nipples with some sort of liquid. I don't know if my nipples were erect because of the liquid or because I was getting excited about this. It was probably the liquid.
So the guy gets out the clamp and puts it on my left nipple. I'm thinking, Um, this may hurt a bit. But it really didn't. But that was only the clamp and not the needle. OK. He reaches for the needle and I get a look at it. The needle is hollow! That's not going through my nipple. Is it? He tells me to take a deep breath. As I breath in I look at Andy and his jaw is about to hit the ground. I kept looking at his face and as I breathed out he pushed the needle through my nipple. He then put ring in and then a little blue ball. I was still watching Andy's face and I'm telling you his eyes were so big and he never blinked once.
I finally looked down and saw my new friend hanging off my little nipple. There was only a drop of blood. It really didn't hurt that much! I was so amazed. The guy asked me if I want him to do my right nipple. I said hell yes! At this point Andy finally closed his mouth and looked at me like I'm the shit.
The guy did my right nipple and it hurt about the same as the left. Not too bad. At least this time I knew what to expect.
I gave the guy a tip and we left the joint. We walked a few blocks back to my car and started to drive home. The seatbelt hurt a bit as it crossed my chest so I just put it underneath my arm. That helped a bunch. On the way home Andy finally said that he never thought I'd actually go through with getting pierced. He told me that he thought I would have left long before I sat down in the chair.
Over the next few days my nipples were a bit sore. But I cleaned them as the guy told me and really didn't have any problems. Everything is basically healed. I can't wait to go to the beach this summer with my shirt off. My girlfriend completely freaked out when she saw them. Now I'm urging her to get her nipples pierced. Come on, she already has her belly button pierced so her nipples shouldn't be too bad. Since being pierced Andy won't make any more bets with me because he fears that I'm actually going to make him go through with it. And let me tell you, I'll get him to bet soon and I'm going to make him get pierced!