This thread is dedicated to sharing all those funny, embarassing moments about being a woman.

I've had the horrible experience of getting my period early while wearing white pants. Luckily I just tied a sweatshirt around my waist and tried to home ASAP.

On the weekend while moving, my father-in-law was packing up my office and then moved into my bathroom. He opens the medicine cabinet and starts packing up my birth control pills, my tampons, my Vagisel cream, my Keeper etc. I walked in and my face went red. Then I realized, if it doesn't bother him, then why should I be embarassed?

I was a brides maid at my Aunt's wedding. Part of the ceremony was to pass a candle through the bride's maids and then give it to the bride because we have wombs. (To bless her with fertility) ...And it made me feel special because I have a womb and I got to hold a candle for half a second! lol I know its dopey but still...

This isn't really funny, except it is when I look back...

I get chronic UTI's and the worst one came on the first day of a month-long stay in France where I was studying and performing in a music festival. I was so embarrassed about having to look for a doctor in a foreign country that I held on for a couple days. Of course, that only made matters worse!

So, I finally asked my supervisor for a doctor's address and went. He was the sweetest older man, but things sure are different over there. Plus, my French was okay for everyday stuff, but talking about a UTI to a doctor was definitely not covered in my high school AP class!

The most embarrassing/funny part was that he gave me this enormous, clear erlenmeyer flask to pee in. It looked like something from chemistry class. Very indiscreet! Plus, I had to carry it right through the waiting room and there was no way to shield it from anyone's view. It's not like here where there's a discreet little opaque plastic cup with a screw-on lid that you pass through a hole in the bathroom wall.

Anyway, he was very nice and gave me some awesome antibiotics, so it was all good. But, definitely memorable!

Our toilet at work sucks and once, before really knowing this, i flushed a tampon, and it went down, but didn't go down all the way and came back up, and my male coworker came up and said i broke the toilet and i was like "arrgh" but said "i'll go fix it" (i have a way with toilets) and he was like "its alright, i already did"
there are only 3 ppl max in the office at any given time, and the doctor was pregnant at the time so it had to be me *blush*

How about the first time I got my period??

...yeah, I was definatley on a class trip TO THE BEACH :brood: with my graduating class (6th grade) and I was lying on a blanket, IN MY BATHING SUIT, as a brownish-red spot appeared on the crotch....

.....and I had no idea what it was, so I just kept on sunbathing...... :sunny:

That's just too funny!

My most embarassing moment was when one of my guy friends (who I coincidentally am now dating) found this calendar of mine from when I was like 13 or something and it had the days I got my period and stuff marked on it. He just would not let it go....

On the weekend while moving, my father-in-law was packing up my office and then moved into my bathroom. He opens the medicine cabinet and starts packing up my birth control pills, my tampons, my Vagisel cream, my Keeper etc. I walked in and my face went red. Then I realized, if it doesn't bother him, then why should I be embarassed?

I was part of a group a few years ago. One of the women in the group needed to move, and we were all helping her. I brought over this "wardrobe" box--the kind with the metal bar across the top where you hang things directly from the closet. So I'm grabbing clothes from her closet to hang in the wardrobe, and she has these very fancy, frilly, sexy slips hanging up, like you might see in a Victoria's Secret catalog. And of course I get totally razzed by one of the guys for touching her slips, as if I have an underwear fetish or something.

Anyway, we did get her moved in record time, but from then on I decided to let women pack and move all their own undergarments.

By the way, the guy that was razzing me married the woman who was moving a year or two later. He was more interested in the slips--and the woman--than I was. :)

My periods have always been really irregular, and I never knew when (or if) they'd come that month, or how bad the flow will be.

so Freshman year, I guess I underestimated myself. I had to perform a scene in front of my English class. I got up and did it, and did a pretty good job. (better than anyone who had come before me.) so I sit back down, feeling all happy and absorbed with how wonderful I was and the kid behind me taps me on the shoulder and hands me a note. "Oh how nice," I'm thinking, "maybe he wants to tell me I did a good job." so I unfold the note. and it says, "R U on UR period? U have a spot on UR pants! maybe U should go 2 the bathroom and check!" and I look back and there's a whole group of girls huddled together. They start laughing hysterically when I look at them. And when you pass a note down a row of people to get to someone, everyone it goes through reads it. I was mortified. Although I am grateful that they told me about it. I was able to cover it up and go about my business.

It amuses me how embarrassed girly things make guys (tampons, yeast infection kits, bras). If I'm shopping and a guy that I don't feel like talking to starts talking to me/hitting on me or whatever, I make sure he sees the pads in my hands and his face gets red and makes an excuse to leave. haha.

Also when I was in umm Rome I think it was, the women's washrooms looked just like the guys...we had to actually squat over the toilets! Lol, it was crappy at the time but funny to laugh at now.

I think a major bonus of being a woman is that if we're really short, we can wear high heels, if we have a zit, we can cover it up without people thinking we're weird.

I remember once going to a nightclub/disco and suddenly getting my period, so i left to go to the nearest corner store to buy tampons. As i'm coming back with my tampons in a brown paper bag, the huge burly bouncer asked to see what's in the bag, i said "girly stuff" wink wink, and he demanded to see it for himself, so as he opened the bag and realized what they were he quickly handed them back to me with two fingers (as if it was catchy!) and sent me on my way into the club..QUICKLY!! It was too funny to see this big "tough" guy get all freaked out at tampons, ahhhh...men... :rolleyes:

Sorry, I screwed up by posting here. This will be my last post in this forum. Sorry!

Oh the things we have to endure! I still get a little "flushed" buying tampons & pads. Especially if the checkout person is a man. lol. I always wonder whats he thinking and if he assumes I'm on my period since I'm buying them! I am 31, I should be over this now. lol. I hate carrying them around the store too, especially pads. If I don't have a cart or basket, I usually tuck them under my arm.

I have had bad period experiences. I still get embaressed if they happen to come to mind. I won't explain them here, but period accidents are the worst kind! Especially infront of people you know. I was lucky that the first time I started was at home. I was 13 and went to the bathroom, there it was and I didn't even know what the heck was happening. I thought I was sick or something. lol. I just didn't know. My mom hadn't spoke to me about it before. So anyway, I yelled for her and she came. She must have thought something was seriously wrong and probaly scared her to death! Luckily, she had something for me to use. She always sent my dad to the store for that stuff and he wasn't embaressed at all to buy it. lol.

If men had to endure periods, they would certainly not be able to handle it! lol

i don't think anything emarasses me now :) but when i was 11-13 i was always paranoid and mortified of bleeding through my clothes. it did happen a few times, but nothing too traumatizing.

i've actually never gotten "surprised" by my period. Even if it wasn't regular, I'd start getting very specific feeling cramps before my period starts, so I always know, at least with a few hours notice, that i'm gonna get my period.

I was in the 9th grade, sitting next to the cutest guy in school. And my period came. So I asked the teacher if I could go to the bathroom, but she made me wait. So I'm sitting in my chair, antsy and freaking out, and the cute guy starts singing to me...

"Urgent! It's so urgent!"

When I was 14, the most mortifying thing happend.
I was in a restaurant with some friends (well it was at disney land) and we were generally messing around and I was wearing a relatively low cut top. Then, my wonderful friend who I madly fancied started crunching icecubes..only he started to choke and spat one out and it shot into my top and basically got wedged there.
ok, maybe not that funny...but it still gives me the giggles to think of me sitting surrounded by sweet innocent kids while I had an icecube wedged in my cleavage.

I still get a little "flushed" buying tampons & pads. Especially if the checkout person is a man. lol.

Two words for ya: self checkout!

Hmm ... I can't think of anything to top an ice cube projected from a choking person landing in my cleavage :surprised

I did have a 'womanly' experience today. I am wearing a dress, which is a rarity for me. At my lunch meeting, I sat down quickly only to hear a load clap. Embarassingly enough, it was the sound of my thighs slapping together ... hahaha ... ugh. :eek:

OK so, why are the yeast infection medications behind glass with the pregnancy tests and condoms (at Kroger)? I can understand the last two, but is the other a commonly stolen item? Sheesh. Not to mention that the cashier was a teenage boy, and it was after midnight.

I used to get embarrassed about buying pads and tampons, but then I think, Well, I'm obviously not pregnant, so how could someone view that as a bad thing? Almost every woman who is not pregnant gets her period. It's a fact of life. I do have to tell myself that almost every time. :)

I had a friend who wanted a pregnancy test one time and I told her I would buy it. I guess it's not as embarrassing when you know it's for someone else. When I got to the cash register, though, I felt a little ashamed of myself or something.

I had a friend steal a pregnancy test from a drugstore while I was with her. She told me when we got home. :grr:

My friend started her period on my flatmates sofa. Luckily he had a throw so we bunged it in the wash.

Kat

OK so, why are the yeast infection medications behind glass with the pregnancy tests and condoms (at Kroger)? I can understand the last two, but is the other a commonly stolen item? Sheesh. Not to mention that the cashier was a teenage boy, and it was after midnight.

Wow, is that why they are locked up? I was just saying to my mother the other day while we were in the grocery store that I thought that putting condoms in a locked case could be very discouraging to say, a young teenager buying them for the first time or something. I mean, if I was really shy about it I don't think I'd want to go and ask the cashier. Think about how many kids would see that and be too embarrassed to buy them. That's no good. :(

http://www.mum.org
http://www.onewoman.com

this is the first time i posted a link, hope it's good.these are websites that discuss the history of menstruation, etc.

i hate the fact that we are made to feel embarrassed by a natural function of our bodies. when i first got my period my mother kind of veiwed it as a problem that all women just have to suffer through.a friend of mine's mother made it a cool little celebration, took her out to dinner, bought her her first gold earrings, etc. i think thats much healthier and really gave her a good start on having a healthy body image.

way back in the day, women were thought to be powerful when they had their periods, because they could bleed for seven days without dying. some cultures used mentural blood as a charm against evil. i don't mind having my period, i don't even take anything for cramps or BCP's, i allow myself to connect to the natural rythms of my body, and i get some great meditation out of it.

shinyredapple, it's true that it shouldn't be something to be ashamed of. I'm glad I take my bc pill nonstop to avoid it, though. Pain in the ass.