A few years back, when I still went to movies, my wife and I were standing in a line to get tickets. As we got closer to the box office, I could see that the young kid selling tickets had obviously had some kind of reconstructive facial surgery, and even from where I stood, I could evidence of a facial prosthetic.
In addition, you could see the poor kid had a pretty bad acne problem.
I was thinking to myself that being a young teenager can be tough sometimes, even when you seemingly have everything going for you. When you have a bad case of acne and facial surgery...well, I felt a pretty deep sense of sympathy and compassion for that kid.
As I got closer, I realized the “prosthetic” I thought I had seen from further away was actually piercings that were placed all the way around the top of the mouth on the lip, and came around the corner of the mouth and halfway across on the bottom.
I was nearly spitting with irritation. I felt that somehow I had completely wasted my sympathy on this turd who did this to himself.
I don’t judge people who cannot control the color of their skin or things like their appearance. They cannot help how God made them, and that is that. But have no problem judging people who dye their hair green and pink, or get stuff inserted all over their face.
As Eddie Murphy once said “You brought that **** on yourself.” (I know, I know...quoting Eddie Murphy!)
***piercings that were placed all the way around the top of the mouth on the lip,***
And to think, animal rights people used to get bent out of shape when we put hog rings in hogs to keep them from rooting up the ground.
Which reminds me, I’ve still got lots of hog rings and the tool to place them in a hog’s nose! Need a ring in your nose, ear, lip? SEE ME!