{"id":553,"date":"2013-08-10T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging2.butchrenfroe.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2013-08-10T14:53:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T19:53:14","slug":"signs-i-am-getting-old-gauges-an-other-forms-of-bodily-mutilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/10\/signs-i-am-getting-old-gauges-an-other-forms-of-bodily-mutilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs I am getting old: Gauges and other forms of bodily mutilation."},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t claim to be the coolest dude in the world. Far from it.<\/p>\n

I am proudly not trendy. \u00a0But I am also 47 years old as I write this, so I am not really supposed to be all that cool or trendy.<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t really give a care about how you wear your hair. \u00a0I mean, honestly I have no grounds at all to stand on to tell some kid how to wear their hair. I had a permed mullet at one time so I got no rocks to throw. \u00a0I mean, just look at this blow-dryed, butt-part, brown football helmet\u00a0goodness:<\/p>\n

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“My hair looks awesome. I will never change how I wear it.” – Something I probably said in 1981<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the great thing about a dorky hair style is that it is far from permanent. So if you want a pink, sideways mohawk with shaved eyebrows, go for it. \u00a0You look goofy, but go for it. You can change that easily.<\/p>\n

But when I see some kid (A kid to me is anyone under 30) wearing gauges in their ears or other parts of their bodies, I have to ask: What the heck are you thinking?<\/p>\n

“I can’t understand why I didn’t get that job at the bank.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Are you trying to gain membership in some remote tribe that practices this form of mutilation?<\/p>\n

I was dining out with some friends from work at Vino’s Pizza not long ago when we saw one of the folks there with some huge, gauged ear lobes. He worked there. Which, if you ever have been to Vino’s is not that shocking. \u00a0I think having tattoos, piercings or some sort of bodily alterations is some sort of precursor to employment there.<\/p>\n

But, if you ever want to get a job once you decide to grow-up, I would rethink getting some of the more extreme forms of alterations out there.<\/p>\n

This goes for extreme piercings, neck and facial tattoos and getting your tongue split. (Yes, that is a thing).<\/p>\n

And because I am the curious sort, I had to look up how to get your ears back to normal once you stretched them out far enough to trip over them. \u00a0To the shock of no-one, you have to get corrective surgery.<\/p>\n

To you young people who like to tattoo their necks, ram pieces of metal in the strange parts of their bodies, or put a hole big enough in their ear lobe to have trained poodles jump through: If you think I am an old man who “just doesn’t get it”, check back with me in 10-years and see if you still think I am wrong.<\/p>\n

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