Brissles
Registered Shopper
Another 'Mum' gem, was that tampons were only used by married ladies.
In my late teens I decided I'd had enough of pads, and decided to give tampons a go. (I was still 'in tact' at this age). I bought a pack and spent a good part of an hour in the bathroom trying to insert the dam things. Several times I thought I had got it in, but couldn't sit down, so out it came. By this time the sweat was pouring out of me. Mum came in, and saw me with one leg on the toilet seat and the discarded remains of several tampons on the floor.
She said "what in God's name are you doing ?". I wailed that I was trying to put a tampon in. She told me to forget it as I was clearly in a state. Which I did, and it was years before I attempted THAT again.
In my late teens I decided I'd had enough of pads, and decided to give tampons a go. (I was still 'in tact' at this age). I bought a pack and spent a good part of an hour in the bathroom trying to insert the dam things. Several times I thought I had got it in, but couldn't sit down, so out it came. By this time the sweat was pouring out of me. Mum came in, and saw me with one leg on the toilet seat and the discarded remains of several tampons on the floor.
She said "what in God's name are you doing ?". I wailed that I was trying to put a tampon in. She told me to forget it as I was clearly in a state. Which I did, and it was years before I attempted THAT again.