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Post by max23 on Dec 28, 2017 0:08:47 GMT -5
A couple of months ago, my girlfriend and I broke up. She left a few things at my place, including an unopened box of Cottons tampons. A month or so later, I was at a local restaurant, having dinner with a friend. I go to this place quite often - it’s within walking distance of my house and I use it for business meetings as well as for meeting friends. While we were having dinner, I overheard a conversation between three 20 something women at the table next to us. Seems one of them had started her period unexpectedly, because she was asking the others if they had a tampon. No one did, but after much searching through handbags, one woman found a pad and the one who’d been asking headed off towards the single occupancy unisex toilet at the back of the restaurant.
So rather than throw my ex’s tampons out, I took the box with me the next time I went to the restaurant and left it on the shelf above the hand basin in the toilet. Because I live so close by, I rarely use the toilet, and I forgot all about the box. I was at the restaurant yesterday, and had to go to the toilet. The box of tampons was still on the shelf, and when I opened it, I saw that six of the eight tampons had been used over a period of about five weeks. I was a bit surprised that six women had needed a tampon – my former g/fs almost always had a tampon or pad in their bag.
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Post by padtastic on Jan 13, 2018 12:46:05 GMT -5
That’s really nice that you “donated” the box of tampons to the restaurant, and equally fascinating that about one woman a week needed a tampon. In my experience there are two types of people when it comes to preparing for periods. The first is the woman whose always prepared: she knows her cycle, she probably even kind of knows her friends’ cycles, and she always has a pad, tampon, or pantiliner (or both) on her at all times “just in case.” The second is the woman whose never prepared for her period. This has always baffled me, especially once these people are adults who should realize that even if their period is irregular, it’s going to come and they should just have a pad or tampon on them at all times. Having that suggested to them by a female friend is met with the friend looking like they just landed from Mars, as if the common sense solution was completely insane. I’m actually a little surprised that only one person in the latter group might be eating out at the restaurant each week, and fewer if you factor in that some people may have genuinely exhausted their pad/tampon supply that was carried on them.
Oh, and I just thought of one other thing too. You said the tampons were there for about five weeks, right? Perhaps a member of the wait staff used several of them too rather than have one more thing to carry on her once she realized they were there. Just a thought.
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