What could be the problem?

I found something my wife hates more than change (if that is possible). This would be my earring.
Understand that I am already considered old by many; I am 46. Hopefully there are a few more years of life gifted to me. I don't necessarily feel closer to death than birth all the time. Plus I enjoy making people wonder - about me, my sanity, their sanity, life. So last year about this time I got an earring for the first time. No big deal, right?
Oops.
Apparently it is a big deal because my wife was PO'd for days and my then-15 year old daughter thought it a very wrong thing for me to do. After a couple of days she stopped mentioning it. When I asked her what her friends said about it, she told me she had stopped telling them.
"Why?"
"Because they all think it's cool!" she said in a very Napoleon-like fashion (and this was before she had seen the movie).
I got the earring at a tattoo parlor. The type they put in was a ring style with a ball that snaps into place. This is what keeps it in the ear. After leaving it in for the prescribed time, I switched to a small, cheap stud (cubic zirconion or somesuch) from Wal-Mart. Sad to say, the stones of those fell out after 9 months or so. I lost the little ball of the original ring. I had no earring.
Yesterday, I went to Hot Topic on my lunch break. Got some more of the rings.
Daughter's first words: "What do you have in your ear? Where did you get that?"
"Hot Topic"
"What did they say in the store to you?"
"May I help you?" I told her.
"UUUGGGGHHHHH"
Wife's first words: "What do you have in your ear? You're crazy."
I think she means it. It has gotten a little chillier in our house all of a sudden.
I'm having a blast. But I hope they can adjust to it.