It happened to someone I know. Two kid brothers found their mother's tampons and, not knowing what they were, colored them and pretended that they were toy rockets. Then they took them to school--CATHOLIC school. I can only imagine what those poor nuns were thinking...
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- My grandmother thought nuns were a separate gender. After all, nobody else wore nuns' habits.— Sister Anastasia isn't female?
- i used to believe that everyone had different colored pee. mine just happened to be yellow.— rick
- Mum used to believe there were men, women and nuns and nuns used to have wheels under their habits!— Chris - Sheffield
- once me and my friend stuck her mums tampons up are butts thinking that you didnt have to poo— ha ha ha ha