Happy National Ear piercing day.
It's why 101, Adam and Allison and to celebrate,
I wanted to find out when you got your ears pierced.
I thought I was gonna be the oldest person in the metro
when I first got my ears pierced, but no, I'm not.
I was 12 whenever I got my ears pierced.
Yeah, my mom never got her ears pierced.
So she was a big believer like she was gonna pierce
my ears as a baby because she was like,
what if she doesn't want her ears pierced?
And I was always mad at her about that
because it was like, I do want my ears pierced.
Now I have a bunch of piercings.
And I was like, I could have been over that pain already.
So 12 years old was the age that she allowed it?
No, eight was the year that she allowed it.
And it was funny because apparently I'd been asking
in elementary school, like, can I go get my ears pierced
and my mom was like, when your eight?
So then I shut up about it till my eighth birthday
and on the morning of my eighth birthday,
I woke up and was like, can I get my ears pierced
and choose like how do you remember that?
But then like, I was too scared.
Then it was good hurt.
You had to wait another four years.
Yeah, I waited another four years
before I was finally brave enough to go through with it
because everyone who like had gotten their ears pierced
around that time, they said it really hurt.
Tammy says I was nine years old
and had it done at Walmart.
My best friend gave me a pair of gold teddy bear earrings
that I still have 40 years later.
I don't have any of my OG earrings.
I wonder if anybody's first piercing
was like an at home piercing like the parent trap
with the Apple and the ice.
I was at a few sleepovers
where some years were pierced.
Brantlin says I got mine done when I was just a few months old,
well before one, and I still have the piercings today.
And Hannah has me beat.
She didn't get her ears pierced
until she turned 34 last year.
I wonder what made her at 34 years old be like,
you know what, it's time.
I wonder if these ears pierced.
Wonder if it was like me where she finally wasn't scared.
At 34, she was like, all right, I could face this pain.
Hannah, we have questions.
