Adult piercing content - proceed at your own risk.
Scribing at 12:39 a.m. on 2005-03-16
eek.
Ok.
I'm traumatized, but trying to put it all behind me. Seriously. Dear LORD.
We were really slow today. I got a call from Bossman letting me know he'd be in at 5:00 today; and since the phone hadn't really rung, and not a lot of traffic had come through the door, I was not distressed by this.
Until the door opened about, oh, say, 20 minutes after I got the phone call.
A Very Big Woman came into the shop, looking to get her clit hood pierced. I explained to this very nice lady that the resident piercer (Bossman) was not going to be in till after 5; she said she was really looking to get it done before she 'chickened out'. She then asked if there were other shops in town where she could get it done (another of my pet peeves .. and I know people do this to other businesses .. they must, right? Walk into one place and ask them to give you the names and numbers - and directions, or drive over there and let them follow you - of other businessness in the same line; your contemporaries .. your competitors if I may be so bold. What kind of thought process is involved there?) It's like going to pick up a woman for a blind date, eyeing her at the door and saying 'you look like you'll eat too much at dinner and cost me more than I planned. Do you have a younger prettier friend who I can just take out for salad? What's her name? What's her phone number? How do I get there from here?'
Anyway.
So, she ended up leaving; saying she had to get to work before Bossman was due in. Perhaps, she said, she'd check out another shop she passed on the way and see if they were open yet. If not, if she still felt like it, she would stop back by tomorrow. Ok. Bye, now.
But she came back.
There are really only two things I can say about this.
1. If you are going to get an intimate body part pierced; please WASH FIRST. If it will take TWO ENTIRE PEOPLE to assist in a usually-one-person piercing (yes, it usually only involves the piercer and the piercee .. but in this case I was drafted to assist by holding .. um ... everything up and away so the piercing area could be gotten to) then the optimum objective is that NEITHER of the TWO people involved besides you should be forced to SMELL you.
2. If the rest of you is nasty, please WASH FIRST. We are piercers/tattooists, we are not miracle workers with no working sense of smell. Please attend to your teeth, and any area of your body that you wish us to touch. Our gloves are latex, not Kevlar. I think I actually saw my gloves begin to smoke around the edges before I snapped them off and continued on to the DeCon shower afterward to fry the sensory memory out of my nasal passages.
This has been a pub(l)ic service announcement from your local body mod slinger. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. Carry on.
And WASH FIRST.
