No, I wasn’t kidding. I also wasn’t considering what life was like before “ear piercing at the mall” was a common thing.
To me, it would be completely preposterous to ask a doctor or nurse to pierce ears in a maternity ward.
Today.
Maybe 40-50 years ago was a different thing. Or a different culture might have OB/GYN ear piercers as a matter of culture.
Once again your concept of preposterous is spawned directly from your parochialism. I am sure at Allegheny General it might not be common, but i assure you down here this would not remotely be a preposterous request. so yes, a DIFFERENT CULTURE meaning an ethnically diverse major metropolitan area as opposed to PODUNK WESTERN FRICKING PA!