The New Abnormal

A little while back I was in a telephone/wireless company's store near the most tony mall in my hometown of Nashville. A woman all tatted and pierced up including her face shouted, "What the h..l are you looking at" along with a few more choice obscenities toward me; when in fact, her appearance was so disgusting that I had tried to avoid even noticing her. Why would someone adorn their visage with tattoos except to draw attention? Why would you have chains dangling from your nose and mouth hooked somewhere under your clothes onto your torso but to elicit freak show stares? What in the world possesses these people and do normal folk now need to hide in their houses behind locked doors?