Apprantly I've gained some 'street cred' amongst the younger crowd at work.
Turns out that a few of them are into piercings and other 'body
modification' too (tattoos, scarification and inserts and other things i
don't want to know about) - but have been sensible enough to only have such
things in places that people don't usually see. They seem to have a deal of
admiration for me, some overweight, greying old woman (to them) because I've
had *cartelidge* pierced, not just flesh like 'normal' piercings. And
apprantly, getting cartiledge pierced "hurts like a fother mucker" (as it
was said to me). And takes ages to heal. And when they find out its actually
a memorial earring rather than just body modification for the sake of body
modifiation, the 'street cred' seems to go up even further. Wow, I might
even rate on the 'cool, for a fossil' scale.

Does it still hurt? Sure does. And is it taking ages to heal? Yup - could be
up to a year.

And was it worth it? Heck yeah

Yowie