This weekend I was at a party and this old woman starts asking questions about my stretched lobes.
“Are those holes in your ears?” Yes
“And you don’t see that as a problem?” No

(and here is the kicker)
“What will you tell your grandkids?”
Without hesitation, I came up with something similar to what you might say.
My response:
I’ll tell them not to swing on my lobes
and everyone around smiled, and that old woman had nothing else to say :)

I do not know if you had the chance a while ago to watch a pilot show that Bre Pettis did called History Hacker (I finally had the opportunity to see it – even though it might have been on TV the end of 08) – I was pleasantly surprised with their choice to show someone that is a research scientist from MIT — and he’s got some facial piercings — outer nose piercings, large lobes,eyebrow, labrets, and a bridge piercing too. I figured I’d pass that along — it’s cool to see mods in a nice light.

Catch ya later

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