"I have been called brave. What is brave? Let me clarify this."
Brave is letting one's friend pierce one's ears with a huge, scary looking, blackened needle. Brave is not passing out as you hear the ripping, popping sound of the flesh as the friend heroically shoves the needle through the last thin, but extremely tough layer of skin.
Let me tell ya...I've got some tough ole skin.
After the first successful try with the needle (and the unsuccessful try with the actual earring), I went into the bathroom to throw up while Katie sat in the bedroom, sweat dripping from every pore, except the ones around her nose.
Let me say here that the throwing up part was from too many sweets. Not the traumatizing needle part. I promise........seriously.......I'm not lying, folks...........really.
By the way, potatoes don't really work. You might've read somewhere that you're supposed to hold a potato behind the earlobe as you gently guide the needle through the obliging skin.
Whoever wrote that is a complete idiot. Potatoes? Guide? Obliging, my foot!
"I am to earlobes what Benjamin Martin was to the redcoats." - Katie, slumping against the window seat while feebly brandishing her Goliath needle.
"Don't worry, I've completely steeled myse---Aaaaaaa!!!" - Me
Katie: "It'll be a great story to tell our children someday!"
Aunt Kathy: "Yeah, behind bars for manslaughter when Eleanor dies from an ear infection!"
"The worst thing that can happen is she'll lose her ear." - Katie
And on that comforting note, I will leave you. And I'll keep you posted as to the status of my ears. When they start turning green and lose their feeling is when you'll get a frantic post as I hurriedly rush to the hospital after stopping by Katie's house for a little "chat."
Ceridwen, I expect at least a mild "huzzah." I'm the first Robert Green girl to pierce her ears. :)
17 comments:
you're crazy. yerp, you are. i love the redcoats quote, that was awesome.
Very entertaining post! Too much fun! :) Hope your ears recover! You really ARE "brave"!
this. might. be. the stuipidest thing you've ever done.
yes, i did just say stupidest.
Parent Trap is a bad influence...
Why do people keep telling me it was stupid?! It's not like I'm gonna let them get infected or something. People used to have their friends pierce their ears all the time! Mama's cousin did hers.
(Isn't stupidest a word? Or am I just stupid for thinking it's a word?)
you can get your ears pierced at walmart and it's faster and much less painful.....
that's just for anyone else who's reading and thinking about doing it this way.
Why didn't you go to Walmart?!!!! Not brave.
Yes. Stupid.
People also used to bleed their arms when they were sick. Just b/c it was done back then doesn't make it safe or right.
They will probably get infected and then you know what? You will have to let the holes grow up and then go to Walmart and get it done in a way that is very quick and basically painless. Fun, actually.
But huzzah on the earrings!! :)
wait..Ceridwen did you do it?..pierce her ears?
yeah it was stupid :D
Well, *I* think you were brave. I wouldn't have let me pierce my ears, if you get my drift. And the good news is, no green tint as of now. See? I told mama you'd be fine.
(this is caroline, not kathryn.) I only wish I could have been there to help. And ya'll, they used a sterilized needle, so her ears won't turn green. Purple, maybe, from the bruises inflicted by the darning needle, but...
Eleanor... you are brave in mine eyes. Exceptionally. Call her stupid all you want folks, but the argument of Wal-Mart being the best because it's fast and painless... and dimplet didn't choose it... Well, she's freakin' brave in my book.
I don't remember all that being part of luther's speech. Do I just have a bad memory?
Amy ....note: I did not call her stupid....actually I'm impressed because I would have wimped out and gone to walmart...
I had to do the same thing once. I wouldn't call myself brave, though. I totally agree with you about the potato thing! I tried it, and it didn't work. Unfortunately, though, I used my finger to guide the needle. *ouch*
Cool post. This made me think of Parent Trap, too. :) And I really love your warning about the orange juice and the llamas; therefore I comment.
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