keeping the earrings off for about 9 hours a day as long as I would put them on evenings immediately after getting home from work. . .sleep with them on, and take them off again the next morning. So I finally made an appointment for my ear-piercing adventure.

But that same evening while talking with my blessed spouse, she said "why go through all that rigamarole. . .I'll pierce them for you right now if you want." So, one-two! And my ears were pierced! She lent me a pair of earrings for pierced ears and since the operation took place on a Friday evening, I slept with them on and kept them on throughout the week-end. Monday morning I took them off. . .went to work. . .nobody even looked at me, let alone at my ear-lobes, and that night I proceeded to put them back on again. . .No problem, no infection. I took the precaution of bathing the lobes with peroxide as a disinfectant. There was only a little soreness the first night, soreness which woke me up a few times during the night. After 24 hours most of the soreness was gone. So now I am applying for membership in that most select TV club called the PE Club. (The pierced-ears club). What did I gain? Only a TV can understand the thrill. It is a very exclusive feminine prerogative. .and thereby one gets the feeling of having invaded a very private feminine sanctuary. Only a TV can understand the pleasure I get from looking in the mirror and seeing a pretty earring dangling from a golden loop that actually goes through the lobe. Somehow I feel more feminine than before and this means an additional dose of pleasure in my TV life. From a practical standpoint I have also done away with the problem of the too-tight earring which one must take off after a few hours as the lobe becomes more and more painful. Needless to say I have now a marvellous excuse to go shopping to build up now a collection of pierced-ear earrings. End of an exciting story.

Now, go back to that part of the story that says: "Monday morning I took them off. . .and that night I proceeded to put them back on again..." I must admit that I wrote that paragraph BEFORE it actually happened. So I proceed now to re-write said paragraph as follows. "...and that night I proceeded to put them back on again. But what a job! I guess the advice given on that first phone call was right. It isn't as easy as it sounds to put them back on again. . .with my wife's help I struggled and