I'm male and have my ears pierced. Nothing flashy. Pretty unassuming. Behind the scenes they are gauged to 8. Every once and a while someone will notice that the back of my earings are weird or different than what they expect. When they ask, I pull one out and tell them the story.

In 2016 I was on a solo motorcycle trip around the US living in 10 national parks as a back country camper. One day I was in glacier NP and I took a stick and carved two little wooden plugs and popped them in my ears and they have been there ever since.

For some reason people think that the earings and story really cool or interesting. I just see it as apart of me and who I am.

Lol literal sticks for earings.