Funny Anecdotes
I'd love to hear your funny stories so that I can post them on my website to share with everyone and have a laugh too!! I'm sure I'm not alone in having the odd embarrassing moment!!
When I was designing the product I was reading an issue of Bella magazine and in the letters section a girl had written about her “embarrassing moment” – the heading read “Monthly pass” (very appropriate!) She wrote:
“Hurrying into work I pulled my security pass from my handbag and hung it round my neck. I noticed my colleagues looking at me and I checked to make sure my skirt wasn't tucked into my knickers. As I went to run my pass through the time clock I found it lodged inside a tampon packet swinging from my neck” - Sharon Heston Falkirk.
If anyone knows Sharon or indeed Sharon if you are reading this, please get in touch. I have just the solution for you!!
Whilst my compact was “in production” as it were, several of my friends had tales to tell and one that will remain with me was from a very good friend of mine who admitted that one night whilst in a pub, the worse for drink, she reached into her bag for a cigarette, pulled out a tampon and it wasn't until she came to light it that she realised she had actually picked out a stray tampon! Fortunately, there was no knight in shining armour around to offer her a light!
Many years ago I worked in the CID section of a local police station. On this particular day II had stuffed a tampon up my sleeve and was winging my way to the ladies when quite literally I bumped into the new Chief Inspector, who was keen to make my acquaintance. He was only being friendly, wanting to shake my hand but, yep you guessed it, he grabbed my right hand, shaking it so vigorously that the tampon shot down my sleeve and onto the floor!! I was 17 at the time and MORTIFIED!! Needless to say that little anecdote cropped up five years later when it was mentioned at my leaving do! I'd come a long way in that 5 years but it still makes me cringe when I remember that fateful day!!
"A few years ago I worked in a pub and we used to go out clubbing on a Thursday night after work every week. One week I was on my period so naturally I had pads in my handbag. It was my turn to pay the taxi fare and I didn't zip my bag up proberly after giving the driver the fare as I was in a rush. I sort of half ran after my mates to catch up to them whilst they were going into the club and I was the last one of us going in. As I was walking into the club one of the bouncers stopped me and said too me looking really bright red: "Erm...love, I think something dropped out of your bag..." I turned around to see two sanitary pads on the steps leading up to the club...I Just thank god it wasn't a weekend night!!!"
Gemma
I had been a paramedic for about 6 months & each month because I didnt want to make it obvious to my male crewmate what I was doing when I went to the loo, I used to put my tampons in the side pocket of my green paramedic trousers.
I had 2 tampons in there & for some reason I hastily shoved my little pen torch in the same pocket instead of its normal one on my sleeve & forgot about it; later, we had male patient (young and v.v.v good looking) who had fallen off his motorbike & (unfortunately for me) had sustained a minor head injury but was fully consious & alert, Part of treatment for head injurys is to check for pupil reaction to light, so, yeah you have guessed it I pulled out a tampon instead of the torch & only realised when I tried to shine the "light" in his eyes, double whammy on this one tho, the spare had obviously been caught up with the other one & as I took the first out, the 2nd one fell straight into the lap of this very cute guy.
He was a bit embarrassed but I just wanted the ground to swallow me up. Thankfully my mate didnt notice otherwise I would have been teased for months.
No doubt the patient had a bit of a laugh with his mates down the pub later, I "thankfully" transferred a while later & never had the bad luck to run into him again.
Name and address withheld for "obvious" reasons"!!!!!
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