Feel so embarrassed-Women only

[mercygate]

Back in the late 1930s my mother’s best friend had an unexpected flood at a big dance, where she was really enjoying talking to a nice young man she had just met. When the catastrophe was discovered, he escorted her out of the room, keeping close behind her to block the view from the crowd.

She was so impressed by his unflustered, matter-of-fact, happens-every-day chivalry that she never looked at another man. Turns out, he never looked at another girl either. They married a year later and lived happily ever after.

 

[jazzbaby1]

Oh my, honey. First get yourself a bag of itty bitty KitKat bars (or whatever). Drink some warm tea, cozy up under a blanket and be good to yourself.

I’ve had my share of these moments. When I was in the sixth grade I destroyed a wooden chair in my classroom with a sudden and heavy period; it had to be burned. For years after that I looked at whatever seat I just vacated to make sure I didn’t leave anything behind. When I was in my hedonistic early twenties I went out dancing with some friends and got it while doing the Electric Slide…all over the back of my dress.

Chin up. You’re fine.

 

[danimay]

This happens to every woman, but I can understand your embarrassment. One time I went to an amusement park with my children and got on one of those giant slides, which I loved. I was about halfway down the thing, with my legs up to my chin, when I looked down, and-you guessed it-all over my white shorts, for the whole world to see!
Most guys know what’s up and will be understanding. It’s life.

 My brother, however, used to be a brat, and one time, when I was about 13, he was walking home from school behind my friend and me and started to tease my friend because she had started her period (her brother told him). I went home and told my mother, and my mother, being a very practical woman, decided to cure him of that. She made him go to the corner store and and buy the pads for us. She also made him apologize to the girl. He learned his lesson, and never ever teased me about it again. But he still had to buy our pads. And later on he was blessed with 3 daughters.:D I just had to tell this story.:) Sweet revenge.

Oh, I love that one.

 

[OutinChgoburbs]

:idea:In honor of the OP, and what once happened to myself more than once, and all the posters who have been “embarassed”, I took a trip to Fannie May and used two of my gift cards.

See: Trinidads, Milk Mays, Dark Chocolate Mays, Dixies, Pixies- Enjoy ladies! The virtual two=pound box is open! Help yourselves!

 

[sanctamaria17]

Delicious!!

 

[SeekerJen]

:idea:In honor of the OP, and what once happened to myself more than once, and all the posters who have been “embarassed”, I took a trip to Fannie May and used two of my gift cards.

See: Trinidads, Milk Mays, Dark Chocolate Mays, Dixies, Pixies- Enjoy ladies! The virtual two=pound box is open! Help yourselves!

Ooh! Ooh! Trinidads!

I’ll add some Sanders’ hot fudge ice cream puffs.

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[Goth_Catholic]

Aunt flo will be on her way to visit me in around anoughter week and a half (since I’ve using CAF to deal with my aunt flo blues I’m more aware of my dates ).

I don’t really have a horror story, The majority of my stuff is black and normally the first day I dont really bleed out at all, but I have cramps something wicked! But I do hate going to the school nurse for pads, because we have to pay for them, and one time I forgot to bring a pad to school the day after my period started, she made a big deal about me getting anoughter one two days in a row After that I started shoving a pad into my back pocket for school. I make sure I change right before I leave and right after I get home, since I really do only have one chance, during lunch, to use the restroom.

 

[SeekerJen]

I make sure I change right before I leave and right after I get home, since I really do only have one chance, during lunch, to use the restroom.

Is that a school rule? My Catholic junior high had that rule: bathrooms only open during lunch. It was a huge pain, and I remember at least one girl bleeding out onto her desk chair because she couldn’t go to the bathroom.

 

[Goth_Catholic]

Is that a school rule? My Catholic junior high had that rule: bathrooms only open during lunch. It was a huge pain, and I remember at least one girl bleeding out onto her desk chair because she couldn’t go to the bathroom.

No, I go to public school, but we only have three minutes between classes (large building with classes on many different floors) and it’s hard to get the teachers to let you out of class to use the bathroom.

 

[housewife]

This happens to every woman, but I can understand your embarrassment. One time I went to an amusement park with my children and got on one of those giant slides, which I loved. I was about halfway down the thing, with my legs up to my chin, when I looked down, and-you guessed it-all over my white shorts, for the whole world to see!
Most guys know what’s up and will be understanding. It’s life.

 My brother, however, used to be a brat, and one time, when I was about 13, he was walking home from school behind my friend and me and started to tease my friend because she had started her period (her brother told him). I went home and told my mother, and my mother, being a very practical woman, decided to cure him of that. She made him go to the corner store and and buy the pads for us. She also made him apologize to the girl. He learned his lesson, and never ever teased me about it again. But he still had to buy our pads. **And later on he was blessed with 3 daughters.:D I just had to tell this story.:) Sweet revenge./**QUOTE]

LOL!! This is soooo cool!

 

[KCtheMommy]

See you are so not alone!!! AND it certainly could be worse…

I remember as a teenager getting those teen magazines, like 17 or Teen. Anyway one of them had a segment on “most embarrassing moments.” One girl wrote in that she was in line at a bank and there was a very CUTE guy in front of her. While she was busy flirting and he was kind of flirting back, he looked down and got a horrified look on his face. She followed his gaze and realized that her pad had fallen out of her shorts and landed FACE up – sticky side down – on his SHOE! She wrote that she just turned and ran, even made her mom go and cancel her account! I laughed so hard at this story, not out of cruelty but out of mortification and sympathy, that I had tears coming out of my eyes. I think that one story stayed with me all of these years for a reason: no matter your period embarressment – it’s hard to top THAT ONE!

I am also a forward kind of gal, so if I were near a guy friend and realized I sprung a leak I would say “quick walk behind me, I have an emergency and don’t look if you know what’s good for ya!” Someone posted “most guys want to forget about things like this” and they DO! I totally agree. My DH and my guy friends would be more interested in helping the damsel in distress than recalling the actual details of the “period-moment.”

Don’t worry about it – I can practically guarentee he’s not telling his friends, nor would he. They don’t want to talk about it!

 

[Wammy101]

Dang…
one time in highschool, just after my brother graduated (i was about 13 1/2 at the time) i was waiting to get picked up outside the libarary when the head of yr 8 walked past and said;
“So no brother to hang out with any more.”
and me, not being to friendly with my bro replied sarcastically
“My heart bleeds”
to which he replied
“I can see that.”
I was extremely puzzled about the whole remark, until i got home an found blood on the back of my school pants.
Who the heck decided to make the school pants light beige and thin anyway?! :banghead:

 

[ElizaE]

Happend to me. 10th grade. I was wearing a red dress and in art class. My period started and stained my dress… didn’t even know. My friend told me and one very unsensitive guy made a remark about it. I was embarrased but brushed it off and ignored his remarks.

It happends to us all and now we can laugh at it. It is part of being a girl.