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My poor lower lip is empty now….

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The sacrifces one makes in order to insure employment… after months of miserable job-hunting, right when I am getting ready for my first date after being separated from my husband for three months (not gonna go into detail), I get a phone call from the Eckerd’s I’d applied to the previous day, asking if I can come in and interview. Like, right away. Luckily, my date outfit is not too outrageous (mock turtleneck and a long skirt) and the place we’re meeting was right up the street, so I hie my backside down to the interview, and pretty handily get the job. Discuss the subject of piercings, and get the manager to agree to a bandaid over my nostril piercings, a wig with bangs to hide my eyebrow ring, but the labret’s gotta go. Oddly enough, my multitude of ear piercings posed no issue… but they’ be under the wig anyway, which should make the bandaid a little less blatantly jewelry camoflage. So, the date goes well (um… REALLY well), and my labret is now an already shrunk-to-nothing memory (the fellow in question, with whom I spent most of the intervening week, was given the jewelry as a trophy, since if I weren’t getting ready for our date I’d have been out jobhunting and missed the call for the interview & they might have hired someone else), and the rings in my nostril have been switched for more easily hidden nostril screws. Between that & my oh-so-mundane work outfit of navy blue polo and khakis, I feel like some sort of secret agent. But I’m gonna celebrate my first paycheck by getting my nipples pierced. So, down one hole, but I’ll be up two ;> Atalanta Pendragonne http://www.BmeWorld.com/atalanta/ – Snake’s Slash Pit (Adults Only!) http://members.fortunecity.com/atalantapendragonne  - The Amazing Shrinking Atalanta TRUE! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

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> job. Discuss the subject of piercings, and get the manager to agree to > a bandaid over my nostril piercings, a wig with bangs to hide my > eyebrow ring, but the labret’s gotta go. Oddly enough, my multitude of > ear piercings posed no issue… but they’ be under the wig anyway, > which should make the bandaid a little less blatantly jewelry > camoflage. So, the date goes well (um… REALLY well), and my labret

This is one of the most retardedly stupid things I’ve ever heard. The manager has got to be made to realize that a bandaid on your NOSE is going to look about 18 times worse than a nostril rong or screw. Christ. — Judith Grunberger http://grunberger.net/

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now….: > job. Discuss the subject of piercings, and get the manager to agree to > a bandaid over my nostril piercings, a wig with bangs to hide my > eyebrow ring, but the labret’s gotta go. Oddly enough, my multitude of > ear piercings posed no issue… but they’ be under the wig anyway, > which should make the bandaid a little less blatantly jewelry > camoflage. So, the date goes well (um… REALLY well), and my labret >This is one of the most retardedly stupid things I’ve ever heard. >The manager has got to be made to realize that a bandaid on your NOSE is >going to look about 18 times worse than a nostril rong or screw. >Christ.

As long as I can keep the piercings, I’ll be happy… I’ve seen the bandaid-over-the-piercing dodge at a couple of places (Randalls & Dennys spring to mind) and it’s better that having to get rid of a piercing entirely. Some people might be able to take the jewelry out for work & get it back in at the end of a shift but mine would be closed up in an hour or two. And it’s not a WHOLE bandaid, just a big enough piece to cover the jewelry… a little odd looking but not, like, a huge lump of plastic. I don’t have to be "in uniform" when I go to fill out the first of the paperwork tomorrow, so I’ll have my two tiny nostril screws bare to his view… maybe he’ll clue to how innocous they are, but you know corporate policies! But until I’m told otherwise…. I am stuck on band-aids, `cuz band-aid’s stuck on me! Atalanta Pendragonne http://www.BmeWorld.com/atalanta/ – Snake’s Slash Pit (Adults Only!) http://members.fortunecity.com/atalantapendragonne  - The Amazing Shrinking Atalanta TRUE! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

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> But until I’m told otherwise…. I am stuck on band-aids.

have you tried either a gold nose bone (thin wire with tiny melted ball like ends) or a nostril screw with a really small ball painted with nail polish that matches your skin tone? its gotta look better/more discreet than a band-aid…even to the greasy manager type. -pH

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> > But until I’m told otherwise…. I am stuck on band-aids. > have you tried either a gold nose bone (thin wire with tiny melted ball > like ends) or a nostril screw with a really small ball painted with nail > polish that matches your skin tone? its gotta look better/more discreet > than a band-aid…even to the greasy manager type. > -pH

In the UK, it’s not the look that is the problem its the health, safety and hygiene that forces our pierced friends within the food industry to wear foolish band aids… I mean how would you feel if you crunched on a crusty nostril screw whilst eating your McDonalds Furburger? — Nick D Doesnotcompute

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> > But until I’m told otherwise…. I am stuck on band-aids. > have you tried either a gold nose bone (thin wire with tiny melted ball > like ends) or a nostril screw with a really small ball painted with nail > polish that matches your skin tone? its gotta look better/more discreet > than a band-aid…even to the greasy manager type. > -pH >In the UK, it’s not the look that is the problem its the health, safety >and hygiene that forces our pierced friends within the food industry to >wear foolish band aids… >I mean how would you feel if you crunched on a crusty nostril screw >whilst eating your McDonalds Furburger? >– >Nick D >Doesnotcompute

So why would her employer have no problem with rings in her ears? Ear jewelery falls out too. I don’t know about you but  I get nervous when someone who is serving me food has a face full of band aids. Jay — Jay "My parents won’t let me use scissors" – Ralph Wiggum

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> So why would her employer have no problem with rings in her ears? Ear > jewelery falls out too. I don’t know about you but  I get nervous when > someone who is serving me food has a face full of band aids.

I wear bandaids to hide the oozing lesions. Sara — saram AT wam.umd.edu, RANA-53 *amputate the ‘pinkies’ to reply* http://www.waxpaper.net "I just like having scantily-clad, buxom women aroumd my room."

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> >In the UK, it’s not the look that is the problem its the health, safety >and hygiene that forces our pierced friends within the food industry to >wear foolish band aids… >I mean how would you feel if you crunched on a crusty nostril screw >whilst eating your McDonalds Furburger? > So why would her employer have no problem with rings in her ears? Ear > jewelery falls out too. I don’t know about you but  I get nervous when > someone who is serving me food has a face full of band aids.

but that doesn’t even matter since eckerds is a drug store and not a restaraunt. — luke

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> a bandaid over my nostril piercings, a wig with bangs to hide my > eyebrow ring, but the labret’s gotta go. Oddly enough, my multitude of

I never understood the thinking that a big bandaid is preferrable to a piercing on a person attending customers in a store. This checkout chick was wearing a big bandaid over her eyebrow, but it was so obviously a piece of jewelry behind it. Actually, I should think it would trouble customers more to be staring at the evidence of some undiscernable injury than a piece of pretty metal adorning a face. Congrats on the job, and you have my sympathy about the lip. I don’t wanna see my labret go, but I’ve been jobless so long that I’d consider it. Luckily I got chosen to do some temp work for the next few days, or I’d be eating corrugated cardboard and lint. Jess —          "I intend to live forever – so far, so good." – Steven Wright         LadyJ is available at www.ladyj.net and fine stores everywhere.

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> But until I’m told otherwise…. I am stuck on band-aids, `cuz > band-aid’s stuck on me!

You should use those brightly colored kiddie bandaids with the Teletubbies on them or something. Jess —              "People want to take sex education out of the schools.              They believe sex education causes promiscuity… hey,                I took algebra. I never do math." – Elayne Boosler         LadyJ is available at www.ladyj.net and fine stores everywhere.

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>> But until I’m told otherwise…. I am stuck on band-aids, `cuz > band-aid’s stuck on me! >You should use those brightly colored kiddie bandaids with the Teletubbies >on them or something.

I have a box of powder puff girls bandaids… i have no point. —Angie a.k.a. D-Strss

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>> So why would her employer have no problem with rings in her ears? Ear > jewelery falls out too. I don’t know about you but  I get nervous when > someone who is serving me food has a face full of band aids. >I wear bandaids to hide the oozing lesions. >Sara

Yup, that is what I fear. What a pussy I am. Jay — Jay 28. Daddy Drinks Because You Cry.     – Childrens books that didn’t get published        

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