On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:40:54 +0100, "Shaun aRe"
> connected the dots and wrote:

~
~"The Ranger" > wrote in message
...
~> [I posted this prior but it seems appropriate with the topic being
~> discussed again. -- TR]
~>
~> Being conservative, I'm often shocked at what people will do to
their
~> bodies in order to show how anti-establishment they are. Case in
point:
~> Once upon a time, a young lady in front of me ordered a hot soy
milk
~> drink. (YUCK!)
~>
~> At some point, she was quite pretty -- I'm sure -- but with all
that's
~> been pinned, painted, and pulled that's now a moot. I'm not sure if
~> "Goth" is in anymore but the dress was very similar -- black
(spandex,
~> leather, cotton). She'd pinned herself in some very visible and
some not
~> so visible places (but it was cold outside). A triad of steel pins
~> protruded from the lower lip to just above the chin. Two diamonds
were
~> pinned through the right nostril. A steel horseshoe was run through
the
~> nose ridge between her eyes. Two diamond studs replaced her
eyebrows.
~> Her ears had also been pieced multiple times. There were, uh, two
other
~> noticeable rings, too (reader's imagination required). [All I can
say to
~> this is "OUCH!!" There isn't enough single malt whiskey to give me
the
~> courage to pin myself this often.] She was painted: wrist and ankle
~> carried Celtic designs, the back of her neck (sun god/goddess), and
~> cheek carried some tear drops. Her hair was chopped short, dyed
deep
~> blue-black, and spiked.
~>
~> All I could think of at the time: Why? Doesn't she realize what
she'll
~> look like in 20 years? Pinholes /might/ close, hair can grow back,
but
~> those tattoos are there for life (even if lasers are used to remove
~> them...)
~>
~> Oh well... Not my daughter-unit, not my worry.
~>
~> The Ranger
~
~Oh me oh my oh DEAR! The things some people will do to their mental
make-up,
~their emotional make-up, the closing off of whole parts of
themselves, the
~damage they do to themselves in the name of what they unequivocally
*know*
~is right and wrong - the inner scars - those are the ones that show
the
~most, and have the most profound negative effects on lives, and not
just
~their own lives, either ',;~P'''
~
~
~
~Shaun aRe - No tattoos (yet?), just 2 piercings, one each earlobe,
one 5mm
~diameter and soon to be 8mm, the other one 8mm already. Gosh I'm a
rebel.
~

My daughter was 7 and we had just moved to a new neighborhood and it
was Girl Scout Cookie time. We went door to door to meet our
neighbors, and she was stunned by the house of the "piercing people" a
couple of 20-somethings with multiple piercings. I prodded her
through her spiel, they excitedly bought a number of boxes, and we
thanked them and left.

When we returned in March to deliver the goodies, an older woman
answered the door, cute as a button, and obviously related to the two
kids. She is their mom, who along with her son, works with
differently abled children at the local school. The daughter is a
sous chef at a local restaurant.

Nice neighbors. They have a dog and several cats.

And daughter has no interest in tats, nor piercings beyond her ears,
which closed up after the first time she plugged them.

maxine in ri