I am very careful with locks now
This story deserves better than to be hidden in the comments thread of a funny post about wiping when you’ve got your period. What’s blogging without embarassing disclosure and other bits of TMI?
My family used to take day trips down to VT or NY to bike, and one time — I was probably about 15 — I got my period in the middle of the trip. So we stopped at some general store to buy tampons and I went to the washroom to put one in.
And as I sat there on the toilet, while I was inserting my tampon, the lock came unlocked and some man opened the door. I yelled at him — it wasn’t his fault, but really. That was the first time any man saw me (part) naked since I was a toddler.
March 16th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
Yowza! That happened to me once, too - lock coming unlocked and a man opening the door without knocking - but thankfully not as I was trying to put in a tampon.
Tampon stories, though… when I was in 8th grade and still really inept at the tampon thing, there was a fire alarm in the middle of my tampon-insertion procedure. So I pulled up my pants and, unwrapped tampon in hand, left the stall to see if I was about to die or what. Teenage angst and humiliation ensued!
March 16th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
It’s happened in women’s washrooms, but also not as I was putting in tampons, or when I was 15. Also, women tend to be a lot more gracious about it.
Um. How in the middle of the procedure were you? Cause I am having icky imaginings here.
In grade 11, I was once out of tampons, so I yelled out in homeroom — or before homeroom or during recess, but in our homeroom — to ask if anyone had spare tampons. And people were horrified that I could ask such a thing in public — in front of all the other girls in my SINGLE-SEX school.
March 16th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
Not *quite* that in the middle, but pretty close.
June 19th, 2005 at 6:38 pm
I’m 13 years old and I’m so upset because I can’t get my tampon in right. I’ll get half way there and then I get scared for some reason and pull it out. It’s kinda upsetting.