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
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was told I can’t wear a nose ring at my new job because several customers "don’t like it." It’s a very small nose ring and the job is a shack that serves food through a window. FML
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 was adjusting my nose piercing from the inside. My mother saw and thought I was picking my nose, so she slapped my hand away, tearing my nose ring out in the process. FML
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
Today, I got my septum piercing stuck in a bag of cinnamon pine cones at Target. My boyfriend was wearing a red shirt with khaki pants, so all the other shoppers probably thought I'd had to call a Target employee over to "cut" me out of the bag. FML
Today, while working in my pawn shop, I was showing jewelry to a distinguished lady. I had to fart. I tried to wait. It was too much, so I let it slip silently. As she handled a $2000 necklace, I realized that the 2-foot counter between us would never save her from the foul poisonous cloud that had formed. She realized it too. 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, I was threatened with suspension from school because of my nose piercing. I had to explain that it's actually a pimple. FML
Today, I went on a job interview. The interviewer said it all went well, but he can't hire me because I've got a nose piercing, and that type of "image" isn't the kind they're looking for in their employees. This is the guy who had a full sleeve tattoo. FML
Today, I swallowed the piercing that I had bought for my tongue yesterday. FML
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brenton490 19
Did you gag back at her attitude?
Seabass_Chan 33
Definitely not. Whenever I see one I imagine a bull stamping it's hoof.
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oops6663 26
I've had mine for over a year now, and few people are actually weird about it. Though I've heard the whole "EW it's a bull-ring"-thing.
idxntgiveafxck 17
What a BIIIIIITCCCHHHHHHHH
glabberfasted 16
A septum piercing is a septum piercing. They're all done in the same place. How can you call yours "tasteful" without assuming all are?
callwondertits6 13
Probably depends on the gauge. An 8g is much different than a cute little 16g.
metalwolf 17
Be happy you can wear things like that at work, OP. As a security officer, uniform requirements are a lot more strict where i work. A coworker was fired because she routinely forgot about our company policy regarding piercings. After multiple written reports, she was let go.
PegLegRacing 34
It's kind of ridiculous to get butt hurt when you are intentionally going against the social norm. I have a full sleeve, if someone said it made them sick it's whatever, it's to be expected sometimes. But I'm not gonna get butt hurt about it, because I made life choices and I'm gonna live with it. **** them. I don't think people are voting YDI because she got a septum piercing, I think people are voting YDI for having a sandy ****** and acting all shocked when people don't like it. And if we're your boss I'd make you take it out for work cuz it's unprofessional... Just like I would make me wear long sleeved shirts.
MorsFalce 12
Why is everyone focusing on the fact that OP used "tasteful"? Its their opinion, calm down. No babies or animals are being killed over OP thinking his septum piercing is "tasteful".
S_Gnu 17
Yeah I never really understood the appeal of septum piercings myself, but you'd have to be a pretty huge twatwaffle for one to make you "sick."
catherinecas 30
There are some people that have phobias of things in or around their nose and it could genuinely freak them out. I hate the feeling of being unable to breathe and looking at people in corsets really freaks me out to the point of vomiting.
S_Gnu 17
Fair point, and I could grant someone that. There was something about the way OP worded it (if their account is indeed true) that made me believe this woman was deliberately over-exaggerating her distaste just to be snide, rather than reacting out of a legitimate phobia.
Amanduhhhhh 10
Okay, but people have phobias of everything. You can't expect everyone to live in fear of everyone else's fears, you know?
Bibliovore 26
Some people just have really visceral reactions to some things. I have no problem with piercings in general, but even thinking about a split tongue makes me cringe, and once when I realized someone near me had one I had to look away very quickly because my gorge was literally rising. I didn't say anything about it and didn't want to be rude to anyone, but my physical reaction was all too real and I'm afraid they probably noticed.
catherinecas 30
Uhh I didn't that people should live in fear of other people's fears? I was pointing out the flip side where the woman's reaction would have been more understandable. Like whenever someone bitches about able-bodied people using handicap spots I point out invisible illnesses.
Waxwell 21
Was it sterling silver? She might be a werewolf
Wolfipoo 31
That's pretty rude for her to say, people have different tastes, what she says should mean nothing to others.
bobbabson 8
"Tasteful"