Who else got your ear pierced while drunk at a high school party?
Posted by scotty813@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 87 comments
A little ice to numb it up, vodka to "sterilize" the needle, and a bar of soap behind your lobe to keep from stabbing your neck? I had it done 3 times and don't have a clue how many people I pierced.
bsunwelcome@reddit
I did my own second lobe with a sewing needle & ice/potato, then put in one of the starter earrings I had from my first (gun) lobes. Unfortunately, it was too close to the first one, but I still kept it.
northofwall@reddit
AlfaNovember@reddit
Look, that was a long time ago. Her name was Meridith, a grade older, and she drove a little convertible. You’dve said yes too.
Oh, and it was a raw potato, not soap.
Jstaff34@reddit
Same, potato and a piercing stud! I was 16. My boomer dad said I was "turning into a punk" when I got home. Which is laughably stupid, but boomers gonna boom.
chamrockblarneystone@reddit
I kept threatening to do it, and finally my ma appeared at the bottom of the stairs with an ice cube and a baby pin. She said, “ Come on let’s go!” I pussed out.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
I'm sure that I'd say yes to a lot of things an older girl asked. With one exception!
Yep, I've used potatoes too!
genx_horsegirl@reddit
Raw potato but yes.
fyrie@reddit
My nose.
Ice cubes and potatoes don't fit up there. A girlfriend just grabbed my nostril and jammed a needle through. It been 35 years and I can still see the hole.
SignalWorking7126@reddit
2nd hole in my left ear. I used ice to numb it. I was also very drunk.
Aggressive_Shoe_7573@reddit
About as much blood as the assassination attempt in PA last year.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
The difference is that the blood from piercing is real.
Valuable_Caramel_371@reddit
I was always the piercer 😂
nevadapirate@reddit
Nah... best friend did it in his kitchen with a sharpened post style earring and a potato after we smoked a bowl. His mom was a teetotaler so there was no booze to clean anything with.
InadmissibleHug@reddit
At my first high school the boys did it with compass needles.
Sterility? Never heard of her
WeAreNotAmused2112@reddit
Not drunk, but a friend did a PA in bathroom at a friend's house. At a seperate time, my friend pierced another friend's tongue in a recliner in my bedroom. The piercer, if you can call him that, dropped the ball down the pierced guy's throat. He had to walk around trying to hack up the ball. Everything worked out.
So stupid, but funny now.
BigBri0011@reddit
Ear, no. Face (cheek), yes.
Independent-Fall-893@reddit
During my punk rock phase '86-'88 I would pierce my ears in the school bathroom for a few dollars each time. I would let them grow up, rinse & repeat. That earned me a small amt.of weekend cash. That was until all my studs basically disappeared into my earlobes and nearly destroyed them.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
Oh, shit! It sounds like that could have been addressed before the damage. ;-)
Independent-Fall-893@reddit
I was stupid. I fell asleep, woke up next day and most of my ear rings were gone. Or so I thought. They just sorta "sunk" inside my ear. Lucky I have no real noticeable scarring.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
Well, I assure you that I never did a SINGLE stupid thing in my youth! LOL!
adamsmechanicalhvac@reddit
Worse...i peirced my ripple with a pin and 3 hours later got in a fight it it got ripped out. Fun fact your nipple grows back 😆 🤣
scotty813@reddit (OP)
Holy Moly! I had my nipple pierced for a while, and a few times something pulled on it, and it was excruciating!
zmon65@reddit
Needle and ice. And lots of beer. I passed out momentarily
scotty813@reddit (OP)
My first one, I got pretty pale and clammy, but hung in there until it passed.
Brilliant_Park_2882@reddit
Cap full of Jack's and bam! I had 2 sleepers in my left ear.
Stung like hell, I pulled them out when I turned 50.
Evening_Eagle425@reddit
Drunk and shoved an earring through it. It bled all over and got infected, and I never did it again..
Did my tongue at a house party in my early 20s, but the dude who lived there did tattoos and piercings. It was all professional and a surprise for my girlfriend (now wife). Then he handed me a little bottle of Listerine and we kept drinking, I just rinsed my mouth every half hour. Took that I e out when I chipped a tooth..
powrez@reddit
Probably shouldn’t post this story but whatever… since you brought up tongue piercings…
Me and a buddy of mine were out of with a couple girls in our friend group and ended up in the ‘cool mom’ basement playing truth or dare. Next morning we woke up and me & buddy had to make good on a dare… getting our tongues pierced. Got it done professionally and all, but my tongue was all swollen up and awkward afterwards and I had to go to work soon (pizza delivery).
Got the best tips ever that night. Didn’t take me long to realize why… one of the customers was like ‘ohh did you drive this all the way out here by yourself’ and then I knew. My tongue being all swole and the new stud in there had altered my voice to point of sounding… special. I felt horrible about it, but I couldn’t just be like ‘no I just got my tongue pierced, see how swollen and gross it is? Anyway, enjoy your meal’. So I let it slide and it healed by my next shift.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
I had a similar experience when I completely overworked my calves at the gym. I was in a bar working on my laptop, and a girl at the table next to me started asking me questions without having anything to follow up with. For example, she asked me about my laptop, but when I asked about hers, she had no clue what she had. After about 5 minutes or so, she left, and I was completely perplexed by the interaction. But when I started to leave, I realized just how extremely weird I was walking because of my sore calves. Then it became clear. She was just being nice to the crippled guy! =D
Evening_Eagle425@reddit
LMAO dude that's awesome. I was actually delivering pizzas when I did it too! Didn't have that issue.
But my wife was working at a gas station while we were both also in school, and this old guy owned the place. Really cool dude...borrowed video games from me. Had this party pad in his back yard, and threw a party. All employees invited, alcohol, food, the whole thing.
My dumb ass ate cocktail shrimp, and my tongue swelled until it didn't fit in my mouth. Like I'm hitting the limit of what the piercing bar can handle.
It all worked out, lots of amused friends at the time. But I still can't stand shrimp 20+ years later...
Bigdaddymatty311@reddit
Did mine right in computer class with a thumb tack.
Extension-Elk-1274@reddit
Not my ear...my left nipple. By my now wife, then girlfriend.
The party we attended had a "big screen" TV with an MTv spring thing on and they were talking about this new phenomenon called body adornment and people were showing if thier piercings and some dude on the toob was showing his nips.
"That's pretty hot", the wife says.
"You can pierce mine if you want."
Yeah. Did that. 55 and still have that. Is kinda hot. Hahaha
Add_8_Years@reddit
Nah. I had mine done at Claire’s at the mall. Immediately passed out. I don’t do blood or pain well.
DanielDannyc12@reddit
Freshman year of college. In a crowded girls dorm room.
Puked.
howtobegeo@reddit
I pierced a friend with a safety pin... but I angle it downward. I still feel bad about it.
Fearless_Lab@reddit
Two ears, Claire's. One ear, Lollapalooza 92 (specifically, during Ice Cube).
AccordingAd6224@reddit
Not my ear, but I used this same method to pierce my belly button. Wore a safety pin in it for about 2 days, then decided it just wasn’t for me. I still have a scar there. 🤣
Money-Dependent345@reddit
My friend just told me to push the earring stud through his ear, so i did
mcbitty12@reddit
🙋♂️
mexipimpin@reddit
Not drunk. It was intentional. I think the piercing finally closed up a few years ago.
MyriVerse2@reddit
On painkillers for getting my wisdom teeth out, and it was the weekend before Mardi Gras, but not directly tied to a party.
stantheman1976@reddit
I never did that but when I was 19 at a party at my cousin's house he wanted me to pierce his nipple. I wasn't drinking so I thought he was crazy. All they had were those regular needles to pin fabric. I said what the hell and did it. I don't remember how many tries it took to get it through but I know it had to hurt like hell. IIRC I think it ended up getting infected and he took it out. Crazy time.
IllustratorWeird5008@reddit
I’ll one up you and say, I pierced many noses, ears, eyebrows and bellybuttons of drunk people, including myself at many a party. Still have people coming up to me here and there randomly telling me I gave them their first piercing. Good thing nothing went wrong ( well one guy fainted, but he was ok)🤣
scotty813@reddit (OP)
Outstanding. You just reminded me that we watched the blood drain from someone's face before they hit the floor, at least once.
rharper38@reddit
Not I. But my brother had his nipple pierced at a high school party. My dad found out about it because he was showing it off the next day and a teacher found out.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
I had a pierced nipple, and it was excruciating. I can imagine getting it done under those circumstances.
GilligansWorld@reddit
Not exactly like this, but we got ripped my best friend and I did - pierced each other’s ears summer before college. Pissed my dad . I for the life of me can’t figure out how we did it though. I know there was a sewing needle in a cork, but I can’t figure out how we got the goddamn earring in our ears.
Interesting fun fact that was ‘91 those holes never closed. I can still put earrings in those holes
scotty813@reddit (OP)
Mine are closed, but every now and then, I push a needle through to see if I could wear an earring if I wanted to.
auntieup@reddit
Sophomore year. Judy something. She was my age but she looked like Stevie Nicks. She taught me how to smoke pot on the same night.
RedJerzey@reddit
Prom weekend. Woke up in seaside heights nj and my ear hurt. So did my date.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
She told me to give her 9" and make it hurt.
So I banged her 3 times and punched her in the nose!
=D
SubstanceNo1544@reddit
I pierced my ear on the bus in the 7th grade with a piercing stud, just rammed it through my lobe in front of like 6 kids lol. Major cool points that day
scotty813@reddit (OP)
It's good to let others know that you're tough and maybe crazy. One summer, we were having a BB gun war in my friend's backyard. He got me good, but when I tried to retaliate, he ran into the house and stood in front of the sliding glass door, mocking me. I took a brief mental analysis and said, "Fuck it," and shot at the door, not really sure of what the outcome would be. The glass shattered, and he stood there with a look of shock and terror. I assumed that for quite a while, my lawn mowing money would be going to replacing it. But when his parents got home, his dad was just like, "Boys will be boys," and refused my offer to pay for it. However, even if I did have to pay, it would have been worth the "Don't fuck with him, he's crazy" rep that I got!
SubstanceNo1544@reddit
Yeah I was that kid too. Got a janky ass tattoo when I was 14. The ol Walkman motor taped to a spoon handle taped to a Bic pen casing with a sharpened guitar string and some Indian ink kind.
My father was NOT pleased lol
Infamous_Towel_5251@reddit
It was my own living room, an eyebrow piercing, and I was stoned on some good smoke.
Deepcove_d@reddit
Used the soap and vodka like you. The only difference was we used a barbless fishing hook.
foreskinfive@reddit
Soap, eh? We used a half of a potato.
Caspers_Shadow@reddit
I did mine freshman year of college. But we did have a party in HS where a girl from the UK was giving people spiked haircuts under the streetlight outside. It was the early 80s when the spiked top with a mullet on the back was cool. She was an exchange student.
relyan@reddit
I wasn’t even drunk!
powrez@reddit
Same, except for the soap and vodka. We raided my mom’s sewing kit (Xmas butter cookie tin) for the needle and used the pin cushion (tomato-styled) as a back stop. Zippo for sterilization.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
I wonder if the tomato pin cushion and the Danish cookie tin are just American things.
I have definitely done the lighter thing when vodka wasn't available.
I've also used a potato behind the ear. I also tried to do it with nothing behind the ear once, and that ended exactly like you'd think it would.
powrez@reddit
Cookie tin and tomato pin cushion were both very real to the point of being cliche. I have no idea why. I do remember that the aunties got together every once in a while to do their mending/projects around the table and one time one of them showed up with her husbands old fishing tackle box as a new sewing kit.
They were all like ‘ohh that’s so clever’ and ‘I would have never thought of that’ until she left and then it was all giggles and ‘why does she always have to be so different’ and ‘maybe I’ll just use my husbands stinky old bowling ball bag as a purse now’.
So I dunno, maybe momma peer pressure or something?
bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit
My friend owed me some money. He paid me back by paying for the ear piercing at The Extra Touch in the mall circa 1987. I’d have preferred the more colorful story, but here we are. It’s sealed up now.
Fit_Gain138@reddit
Pierced my lip in the HS bathroom during a tennis tournament with a safety pin. My dad was not amused.
Ok-Explanation-9208@reddit
Stoned on Saturday morning with a friend.
ddurk1@reddit
I did my nipples at a party, hiding in a closet with a girl I was desperate to impress, while the cops were busting up the party. I pulled a thumbtack out of the wall and did it without sterilizing or anything. She gave me her giant hoop earrings to put in the holes. We kind of made out for a bit, then never saw her again. Woke up the next morning with these 3 inch hoops in my bloody and swollen nipples. None of my friends believed me...
Bidrick@reddit
I did mine without too much incident, however, my buddy was pretty drunk and we left the ice on too long. I can still hear the sound the stud made!
cbatta2025@reddit
Freshmen year at college 1987. Friend just took one of her studs out and pushed it through my lobe. I still wear a small hoop there.
yurinator71@reddit
I pierced my ear in history class with a stapler.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
Historic! =D
jumpman44a@reddit
Soccer camp at Michigan State - summer of 1989. Had rubbing alcohol and a needle. We used a potato (WTAF???) instead of a bar of soap.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
Rubbing alcohol?! What were you - a doctor?! ;-)
Quirky_Commission_56@reddit
I got my first ear piercing at Claire’s when I was 12. I added an additional four piercings myself using a sterilized sewing needle and no ice.
MsGozlyn@reddit
I was the piercer. At parties and once at a bar.
theblisters@reddit
My friend just pushed a plain old stud thru my ear with his thumb
EttaJamesKitty@reddit
Same. I don't recall it hurting all that much. My mom was like "when did you get your ears pierced??". I was like "last night when friend and I were doing homework". She shrugged and went back to cooking.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
Hardcore, Brother. I've done that once in a bar.
70sLiteRock@reddit
I did and it was a huge mistake because instead of the needle I got the gun. the piercings never healed right and for years afterwards they would throb and leak pus. I couldn't even wear any earrings. so I let them close up and still was in pain. eventually they developed keloids.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
What kind of gun? A piercing gun? And that was more fucked up than a plain old needle?
70sLiteRock@reddit
yes it was a piercing gun. they used the earring post to make the hole in my ear with it. and it was worse than a needle. every person I've spoken to afterwards says the gun is the worst way to get a piercing.
SDC83@reddit
not drunk, in middle school. Ice cub to numb, needle sterilized with a lighter flame, and potato behind the ear. got several piercings I wear to this day that way.
Melodic_War327@reddit
I was scared to do that at the mall, I certainly wasn't going to do it in somebody's bathroom.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
That's where the being drunk part comes into play! I know that there were at least two times that the receiver was surprised to wake up with a pierced ear. ;-)
JenMartini@reddit
There was a guy in my freshman dorm with a piercing gun, I got 6 or 7 from him over the year. Never got infected and they were perfectly lined up.
scotty813@reddit (OP)
I had/have one that I had to "feel around" for the back hole.
DoomOfChaos@reddit
Nope, stoned not drunk
AmazingResponse338@reddit
Freshman year of college, but generally same (but stoned)
Mr_WeedHead@reddit
This guy. Hid it from my Dad for a day or so then he saw it and I could tell by the look on his face that it was coming out very soon.