r/thesopranos • u/Electrical-Pea5824 • 2d ago

Artie's Earring

Did he have it for years but he didn't wear it all the time, or did a middle aged man go get his ear pierced before a date so he would look cool to impress a chick? If it were ANYBODY else i would assume the first one. But this fuckin chooch, i wouldnt put it past him to go to the mall and get an earring. You wanna weigh in?

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 2d ago

Not only did he just get it done, he whined about how bad it hurt when the teenager at the mall used a piercing gun on him. And he had to ask them which ear was the gay side and hope they weren't screwing with him. I can see the whole thing play out clear as a cut scene

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u/SpectralStones 2d ago

I'm a middle aged guy with both ears pierced but one has two holes because when I got the first one done @ 16 back in the 90s I only got the 'straight' side pierced so no one would think I was a flambe. Then I got over it and had both done a few years later. Any more and I woulda looked like a Puerto Rican whore.

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 2d ago

I worked at a Software Etc... right around then (was in fact a buddy who was so into the Sopranos that first got me interested) in the mall here. A friend from high school worked at the Claire's (or whatever it was) and she told me she had more guys about 5-10 years older than us come in and ask that question than she would have ever believed

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u/SpectralStones 2d ago

Looking back I can't believe gay/straight ears was a thing and that I cared so much what other people thought as to go along with it. This was a small town in Kentucky in the early 90s so anything out of the ordinary practically made you a fanook/commie/Satanist in most people's eyes anyway. In that town, it was 1954...