Yeah, I know. I've been to the parlor with friends and I've watched them have theirs done and it still kind of turned my stomach.

As for the why- there are a couple of different reasonings. I'm an English major, want to be a writer and semi-colons connect sentences. So if I get it where I'm thinking I want it, it would be a connector of people too. My friends laugh when I tell them that, but hey. It might not have a significant memory behind it, but it represents something that I am now.