Day 506: I seriously thought I was being Punked today. Of course it was steady/slow when my manager was with me, but as soon as she left it got crazy busy for four hours straight that I was there by myself. Literally as she clocked out, I had a family of 5 come in wanting to get their daughters ears pierced. I asked right away if they wanted us to do both ears at the same time (you can seriously tell right away if the kid is scared or not) and of course they did. Mimi said if I can get everything ready in 5 minutes, that she could stay and do it. I literally had that girls ears cleaned and dotted in a minute. Mimi came over and literally as I pulled the earrings out of the package, the girl starts hyperventilating and crying. LONG story short, Mimi had to leave, I had to ring a line of customers up went back to do the piercing, one ear at a time this time since she wouldn’t let us pierce them at the same time, and one of the siblings ended up throwing up everywhere. They had just eaten at some restaurant that gave them balloons (it was none of the three kid’s birthdays) and had already been in our store for 20 minutes. The mom was super nice and had the majority cleaned before I had even gotten back up there, but the smell was still there. Again, LONG story short the girl let me pierce one ear, but right when I went to squeeze the gun, she pulled her head away and started screaming. The backing didn’t go on, so I went to put it on and realized the earring didn’t go through the back skin of the ear. Normally we’d take the earring out and repierce it, but I knew that’d freak the girl out. So I literally just pushed it through. She was already (fake) screaming, so to the mom it didn’t seem like I did anything. Somehow she let me pierce the other ear as well and after again scream crying for 5 minutes, she was fine and dancing to Taylor Swift. I ended up having another EP where the mom insisted the backs be tight because it was the 3year olds third time having then pierced. The girl was super chill, but said she had to use the bathroom really bad. I was like I’m not having throw up and pee happen in the same day, so for the first time in two years, I let a customer in our bathroom to use the bathroom. I ended up closing 15 minutes late and had to stay late BECAUSE ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE, or printer is broken. . _ . So I had to handwrite all the reports. Lets just say I left a long note for Holly in the morning. #PicFrame