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Period dramas
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21-02-2009 2:02am#1I got a call off my (quite baffled) mother this evening. My services were requested immediately, as my fourteen-year-old sister "Niamh" (an absolute drama queen) has been invited to a date to the swimming pool with the boy of her dreams, but her legs were hairy and it was her time of the month.
First, I had to go through the whole waxing thing with her. By "go through", I mean "do it for her". YUCK!!! For a fourteen-year-old, she is very very very very hairy. That was fun.
Then, the whole tampon thing. I talked her through it, even doing a "dry run" with her (i.e. outside jeans.) I then stayed in the bathroom with her and talked her through it (with my back to her!) She eventually got the job done, after much coaxing, and collapsed in her bedroom five minutes later (OMFG!! OMFG Aoibhe, that TSS thing, I've got it, I'm all sick all dizzy, it's so painful, ring an ambulance quick!!!) She tried for about an hour to convince me to pull it out for her (I'm a good big sister but not THAT good) before eventually I managed to talk her into taking it out herself. She has decided they are the instrument of the devil, and she is (so she says) never going to use them again.
Then we were sitting down with my mam to watch TV. Jane Eyre came on. Niamh said, "Never heard of this, what is it?" Mam: "It's a period drama, you should watch it." Niamh: "WHAT???? I've had enough feckin period dramas for one night!!!" *runs from room*
I thought it was quite amusing. My own periods were never that dramatic (basically I got it, told no-one not even my own mother, bought my own tampons with babysitting money, that was it.) Just wondering whether anyone out there has any other amusing/interesting stories
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I remember the first time a girl I worked with asked me for a tampon and I handed her a little plastic wrapped tampon, and she just stared at it and said "Oh no, I can't use one of those" I didn't understand what she meant until I realised she had only ever used applicator tampons and had no idea how to insert a bog standard run-of-the-mill tampon.
Also, my mom always called them bullets. "Do you need a box of bullets?" I told her never to ask the supermarket attendant for them like that.
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I remember the first time i got my perio, i was in 4th class my teacher was miss kelly, our version of miss honey from matilda, the best teacher in the world, god rest her, went into the toilet, and came out and asked her for a plaster as i had cut myself and she asked were and i said i wasnt sure but somewhere there, pointing
que the phone call to the mother, who collected me brought me home stuck an auld dr whites on the undies and put me sitting on the couch. Didnt have a clue, lasted for 7 days and didnt get them again till 6th class, and i knew by then what happened! God when i think back, it was horrible! 0 -
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GirlInterrupted wrote: »When I had my first period, my parents took the whole family out to dinner to celebrate. Oh yes.
And my four brothers were told to congratulate me. I'm amazed I've turned out as normal as I am.:)
I know two girls that happened to, you didn't grow up in Portlaoise did you?
One of my many sisters when aged eight, was a precocious kid (sp?) and decided to ask one day at dinner what fallopian tubes were :eek:
I'd the horror of being in primary school (fourth or fifth class) no school uniforms and getting a period unexepectedly whilst wearing a light summer skirt (it was hot summers we had back then in the dark ages), I'll never forget realising due to everyone pointing at the appalling staining on my skirt and having to walk home at lunchtime horrified.
The teachers weren't exactly helpful or sympathethic.
btw, I thought the thread referred to the likes of Victorian fillums 0 -
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Why didn't she just shave her legs?
Yeah i was thinking that.....
no funny stories really. I remember someone kicking me with a sandal on and going"Oh my god...are you wearing a nappy!?" Bear in mind that when you got your period then, it was those big "Stayfree" monstrosities. they were so thick. haha. After two minutes then it was squeshed into an awful uncomfortable shape. Christ.... us poor girls.
As the famous song starts, "Sometimes its hard to be a woman......" 0 -
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Hehe I was blessed by the boob fairy way before I even knew about periods properly, so when I was asked for a pad by a girl in my class who I presume thought I had my periods, I handed over my A4 pad. Ah the innocence!
But on the OP: my little sister is like that, unfortunatly 19 and should have more cop on :P Talked her through a tampon insertion outside the bathroom, but she was freaking saying it was falling out and too big etc. Turns out she inserted the inserter upside down so basically inserted a carboard tube and threw out the tampon.
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Thanks taram - good to know I'm not the only one
Ya like many others, my mam's not a big fan of tampons. But she insists on only buying the big massive inch thick pads that you can actually see the outline of if you're wearing fitted trousers!! I don't get it, there are so many slimline versions etc available now!
My best friend got hers when she was nine, she knew what a period was, but in her muddled mind she thought it was supposed to come out of her bellybutton!!!
So, when she started bleeding "down there", she thought she was dying (her aunt had died of cervical cancer the previous year.) She didn't want to go worrying her family, so instead she got me to help her make out a will and funeral arrangements - no joke. I was no more sexually edumacated than her!! Of course, she ended up bursting into tears and telling her mammy that evening anyways It was pretty traumatic for both of us at the time though!! 0 -
I know two girls that happened to, you didn't grow up in Portlaoise did you?
One of my many sisters when aged eight, was a precocious kid (sp?) and decided to ask one day at dinner what fallopian tubes were :eek:
I'd the horror of being in primary school (fourth or fifth class) no school uniforms and getting a period unexepectedly whilst wearing a light summer skirt (it was hot summers we had back then in the dark ages), I'll never forget realising due to everyone pointing at the appalling staining on my skirt and having to walk home at lunchtime horrified.
The teachers weren't exactly helpful or sympathethic.
btw, I thought the thread referred to the likes of Victorian fillums
4th or 5th class? 10 or 11? God that's very young to get them isn't it, or maybe I was just very old, I was 14 when mine started.
The times I absolutely hated the most was when I had exams in college. There would be about 500 of us in this big gym, and you had to walk in front of everyone when you were finished. I would also invariably have my period while therse exams were on. I used to be petrified the whole time and be absolutely paranoid there would be a stain on the back of my trousers when i walked up to hand in my paper. What we poor girls have to go thru.
There is a definitely a sod's law with periods. You'll always get them when there's a particular occasion you don't want them for. Any music festival i've ever been to ive got my bl**dy period. If you can survive a weekend of having your period and only having stinking portaloos to sort yourself out in, you can survive anything!0 -
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I shudder when I think about it now - can barely even type it. Confirmation day & cream trousers!!!! Arrrgh!!! I've never worn light colour bottoms since, even when I know I'm not due. I'm even afraid to wear light brown bottoms in case I'm taken by surprised. I was scarred for life - after all, I was only 12. 0
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Oh you poor girl:eek: That was just so unfair. I was lucky really, I was 12 and I got it early one morning before school. I went into the kitchen, told my mother who set me up with one of those massive massive towels and sent me off to school. No drama at all.I shudder when I think about it now - can barely even type it. Confirmation day & cream trousers!!!! Arrrgh!!! I've never worn light colour bottoms since, even when I know I'm not due. I'm even afraid to wear light brown bottoms in case I'm taken by surprised. I was scarred for life - after all, I was only 12.Ah jaysus tears of laughter here at the mother saying to stick the pad on to the swimsuit QUOTE]
I got that line as well!
What was with them telling us those silly things? Its out of the same stable as having a really hot bath and drinking lots of gin will help you not be pregnant any more.
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Oh you poor girl:eek: That was just so unfair. I was lucky really, I was 12 and I got it early one morning before school. I went into the kitchen, told my mother who set me up with one of those massive massive towels and sent me off to school. No drama at all.
Actually now you've dredged up one of my most suppressed memories.
Around the 4th/5th class age, as well as periods, I developed boobage.
Now, I'm the oldest of ten, and my parents were strict Orthodox Catholics to put it mildly
So, said boobage develops, and is being ignored by one and all.
Until, one day I arrive home from school at lunchtime (in my school you went home unless you lived in the sticks at lunchtime) and my mother points at a Penny's bag on top of the fridge and says "I've bought you something nouggatti"
Cue me being thrilled, and in front of all of my siblings (four at the time), plus father, up I bound excitedly, grabbing said bag and taking out the contents.................................................
.............It was my first bra :eek: Oh the horror at that young age of being in such a situation. I hurriedly shoved said undergarment into the now ripped bag, resumed eating my lunch, and when asked by my mother (in her caring way) if I'd like to try it on, muttered something about going back to school.
Other girls went girly shopping with their mothers, like in the Judy Bloom books, and out to dinner to celebrate, my 10/11 year old self was mortified at lunchtime in front of father and siblings:mad:
Might actually be a good thread "how did you get your first bra" if it's not been done already
God I can feel the horror still :mad:0 -
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