There's actually a funny story behind my piercings. I went to boarding school the summer prior to and throughout my senior year of high school. Durring the summer school, we all went to the Vermont Reggae Fest. (I swore up and down that I did not partake of any foreign sacraments while I was there.) I got my ear pierced while I was there. When I came back, my dorm parent noticed and was like, "Oh, cool... hey, wait! You only got one ear pierced? Come on, man. Nobody's gonna think you're gay." And my reply was, "Hey, I only had the money for the one." Immediately, my dorm parent busted out the twenty needed to pierce my other ear.
And that, kids, is why both of my ears are pierced.