Untruths Are Low-Brow

(In summers during college I work with kids at a summer day camp program. I have my eyebrow pierced.)

Kid: “Why do you have that thing in your eyebrow?”

Me: “It’s a decoration. You know how people have earrings? It’s like that, just in my eyebrow.”

Kid: *skeptical* “Really? I don’t think so.”

Me: “Yes, really.”

Kid: “No.”

Me: “You’re right. It’s not a decoration. I used to have a droopy eyebrow and this keeps it from falling down my face.”

Kid: “Oh! I hope I don’t get that…”