Missing a keychain?

Missing a keychain?

Maybe I just haven't paid much attention to teenagers or early college kids these days, seeing as how (thankfully!) I don't HAVE any at home.

More and more often I'm seeing kids working as cashiers, store clerks, or waiters/waitresses, and they all seem to have some really ugly-ass facial jewelry. When I worked at Hannaford while in college (when it was still called Shop and Save), facial jewelry WAS NOT ALLOWED, AT ALL.

Times have, of course, changed radically!!!

Now I'm not AGAINST piercings, by any means. I think a small, delicate, diamond nose-stud looks pretty on the right woman. Some men can indeed pull off wearing earrings, and they look downright sexy. I'll even say that I've seen well-placed eyebrow rings on some pretty tasty men.

But you will NEVER convince me that there is anything attractive about having a stainless steel ball-ring the size of a basketball hoop sticking out of your lip, or your septum. When you have all that hardware sticking out of every facial protrusion, you don't look edgy/radical/rebellious/hot/sexy. You just look like you were attacked by the spare parts drawers at Liberty Tool.

So! This is for the young lady who rang in my groceries today:

Honey, for goodness sakes. Please do yourself a favor and TAKE THAT HONKIN'-ASS DOORKNOCKER OUT OF YOUR LIP. It's ugly and makes you look like enslaved livestock. And in case you were wondering: Boys are not checking YOU out. They're looking at your lip-ring and watching it move while you talk!!!