I took my sister to have her tongue pierced today, but don't tell my parents.

It's going to be a surprise!


Glenda's been bugging me to take her to some tattoo place out of town. I was kind of antsy about this, so I asked if we could check out the ones in old E'ville. I got out the phonebook, and found a few that didn't sound too funky. We headed out and into my incredibly warm car, then onto the bank for loads o'moola. Well, a minor load. Then we went to a drugstore for Listerine and some other oral wound medicine stuff that I can't remember the name of right now.


Then it was off to find the parlor/shop. Finally, we found it. We went inside and the first thing I saw was this older-than-my-mom lady, a heavily tattoo-ed guy, and a little girl watching the Batman cartoon. It was all very homey. Well, homey if your house is wallpapered with tattoo patterns.


We waited a bit and then this guy came upstairs. Apparently, he was the piercer. He led us down into the "Dungeon", and into this little room. Glenda filled out some paperwork, swished some of his Listerine for an ungodly period of time, and then leaned back into his chair.


He gave her a towel to hold under her chin. Then he got out a purple marker to mark dots where the needle was to go.


It was just like when I had my ears pierced when I was seven!



He clamped her tongue with some, well, tongue pliers, I guess. Then he stuck this big old needle right through her tongue. Glenda turned into a drool bucket! This is something that happens to everyone, I'm told, though. He stuck the bar in and that was that.


It was sort of an anti-climax. She paid and we went home. Whoo.

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