Just a little story about the stupidity of kids now.
I'm in my last year of High School. I started late because my birthday is late in the year and when it was time for me to start I was sick and didn't get to go until a year later. Anyway, that means I'm older and more mature than almost everyone at my school, seriously. Friday at school this kid came up to me. His name is Charles, Charles Brown, no joke. I hate Charlie Brown with a burning intensity, and he knows this, and I really make it a point to get this across to him. Anyway, I had my 5/8" earskins in and he noticed. He said "Wow, Jen, those are some BIG gauges, what are they, ones or double zeros?", at that point I stared blankly and said "They're 5/8", and he said "Yeah, but...what GAUGE are they" talking to me like I'm some kind of retard, emphasizing GAUGE. Well I then explained the gauge system stops at 00, sometimes at 000, but that's really almost 7/16". He stared at me blankly for about 10 seconds and then said that sizes like 7/16" and 4/7" and 5/8" were "specialty sizes". Then he explained to me that he had his ears pierced and gauged at 5g. His ears have never been pierced. Have no holes in them, and have absolutely no scar tissue on them whatsoever...and he's 14. I then had to explain that if anything 5g was a specialty size because gauges go in increments of even numbers, and the in between are usually skipped except from the 2g to 0g stretch. He then tried to tell me I knew nothing, even though I've been stretching since I was in the 8th grade, when I was 13. I really wanted to punch him in the face. I tried to explain it to him calmly, but then I yelled at him and walked away. ARlkfj;awdklaf.