Today, I was excited about showing everyone at work my new piercing. It's in an interesting place in my ear, and it's not that common. Before I had the chance to tell anyone about it, someone asked, "Are you wearing a hearing aid?" FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, at work, a customer told me how unprofessional my piercing made me look, and insisted that someone else wait on his table. It's not a piercing, it's a mole. FML
Today, I went in to see my piercer. He took one look at my piercing I got a few months ago and laughed saying "What a shit job, I'm sorry but that's pretty crappy because it's not even straight!" I then had to awkwardly explain it was indeed him who had pierced me. FML
Today, I was at a job interview at McDonalds. All was going well until the manager told me that I'd have to remove the piercing that I have on my eyebrow. I didn't think that my mole would be so confusing. FML
Today, as I was translating for a patient to get an MRI, the tech asked if I had metal in my body. In front of the patient, I had to disclose that my nipples were pierced, so I couldn’t accompany the patient bedside. FML
Today, I was working customer service at a large grocery store. I recently got a small, tasteful septum piercing that is barely visible. As I greeted a customer, she began to gag, held out her hand as though she was fending me off, and said, "I can't. Your nose ring makes me sick." FML
Today, I lent my brand new earrings to one of my friends. Everyone told her that they are pretty, and look really great on her. I've been wearing them for the last 3 weeks, and no one has ever mentioned them. FML
Today, I got a warning at work for wearing my ear studs. Not only have I worn them the whole time for the last year I was here, I was unaware of this “rule.” I also was just told that the female employees are allowed to wear them, but men are not. “It looks unprofessional.” FML
Today, I was taking my earrings out and thought I had lost the back of one. Turns out my ear infection has caused the flesh of my ear to grow around and engulf the back of my earring and it is still stuck in there. FML
Today, I got a new piercing because I was trying to be spontaneous. Now, I realize its placement is off and I hate it. FML
Today, I was fixing something for a guy at a steel manufacturing company. His employees told me that their boss can't hear properly, so I'd have to be loud when talking to him. When I'd finished, he asked me if I normally talked like that, or if there was something wrong with me. FML
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Oupazas 1
First, who gives a shit about piercings? Second, who gives a shit about what people say about you?
cmac86 24
the fact that you got it in a different place should tell you something-people are going to stare and wonder.
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gr3y_fml 1
An earplug in the tragus or anti-tragus could be mistaken for a hearing aid.
perdix 31
They'll love you at the "Deaf Comedy Jam!"
epictm 0
(205) I woke up not to be greeted by the oh so hot girl I slept with… I woke up to be greeted with the oh so hot girls CHILD asking me who I was. From http://www.epictextmessage.com
CallMeHush 1
Shoulda wore a rubber, nothing worse than hearing aids.
RedPillSucks 33
That's phunny!
aardvarkish 17
Why do some people consider it an fml that some one in their lives has a sense of humor?
ohSNAPyall 27
Did you answer in sign language?
kybabyy 4
I don't know what any of this tragus and daith stuff is, so I may have the wrong picture in my head, but wouldn't it be pretty painful to pierce inside your ear... as well as potentially dangerous..?
tencentsakiss 19
not really dangerous as long as you use a hollow needle. otherwise it can shatter your cartilidge (spelling?) painful yes.
kybabyy 4
Eep, I hate needles. What if it got infected? Wouldn't it run into your ear canal? I don't know why I'm asking so many questions about this haha. Maybe I should sleep more.
tencentsakiss 19
hmm maybe. I know shattered cartilidge can kill you and I could see an infection being potentially dangerous to ones health, whether close to the ear or not. if you get it in a clean and reputable place though, chances are much more in your favor
Opera_Ghost 0
Actually my daith didn't hurt that much at all (kind of like someone pressing down hard on a big bruise) and I have a low pain tolerance for the most part. If your piercer knows what he/she is doing, you should be fine getting hard cartilage done (though it may take a while to heal. Daiths and traguses take about 6-9 months!)
tencentsakiss 19
now I kinda want more piercings after all this talk
KOAnaf 0
Gonna be honest...just reading that first sentence, I thought this was going somewhere totally different...
tencentsakiss 19
haha yea
stolencrackers 1
I'm sorry, I like MY hearing aid, it allows me to hear in this world. Would you like me to stop wearing it so no one mistakes a hearing aid for your preciously, "interestingly" placed piercing? Grab your t*ts and correct them, but don't FML because someone mistook it for something that allows so many to HEAR in this world- which you obviously take for granted.
dramaababyy 0
uhm I think your overreacting just a teensy bit. they really never said there was anything wrongg with hearing aids just that they were dissapointed (sp?) that it was mistaken for one. which is understandable. and fml is not really about some big event; just something small in your day that makes you go, "ugh really!" so don't freak out. it's just an fml.
stolencrackers 1
In any defense, I truly JUST got out of a huge battle getting a new hearing aid the other day, so it did kind of get under my skin, only because without it I can't hear anything (I'm fully deaf in one ear and have serve loss in the other) and I grew up up having people point and go "omg what's that in your ear?!" And I'll agree a fml IS a moment that makes you go "ugh, didn't need that right now" but if I racked up all those moments in my life (probably like most of us) I'd have my own page by now.
dramaababyy 0
that makes more sense. people are very inconsiderate (sp?) when it comes down to stuff like that. I can see where you are coming from. and me too. I have these moments way to much.
beachycat 0
I feel the same! I have a hearing aid too and this OP makes it sound like it is SO bad to have a hearing aid. I love my hearing aid so I can hear what is going on around me.. especially hearing my daughter's laughs.
mcrgirl228 8
Dude. Calm down. She did say that she was trying to correct them, but someone said that before she had the chance. Don't get so angry about everything
laff1234 4
it could be anti-tragus, it's not inside the ear but it could be mistaken for one. and to the girl with the belly button, they are definitely high for rejection, all surface piercings are. it's awesome you managed to keep em. I wanted to do that but the guy who does all my piercings wanted me to do dermals. I haven't worked up the courage yet.
tencentsakiss 19
yea I had to drive to like 8 different places before I found someone willing to do it. I really wanted it to slant in a different way so I could get a star, but they said that would be even less likely to work. apparently they won't even do them anymore. my friend tried doing it right after me and they no longer did surface piercings