A childhood belief about periods

One time I found my mom's pads, and looked at her, and said, "Why do you have diapers?" she told me, "They're not diapers. They keep all the bad things from getting in your underwear."

Astonished at these protection devices, I wondered why police didn't wear them. My little sister started sticking some all over the walls one day, and I snatched them from her, yelling, "Are you stupid?! Do you want the bad stuff to stay in our house?! Take them off right now and put them around you, or else some bad people are going to come into your underwear!"... Unfortunately, some guests were over, and I ran into the living room, grabbing my sister's arm, and pointed at one of my dad's friends, who I thought was a bad guy. "See! If you don't put these around you, not the wall, then that guy will go into your underwear!"

I then glared at the man, and pointed my finger, yelling, "You stay away! We got pads and you're not going to get into our underwear!"... Boy, was my mom upset with me.