When I was a kid I had a napkin collection - napkins I saved from parties, holidays, etc. One day my mom and I were standing in a line of women waiting to use the restroom, when I noticed a machine on the wall that said "feminine napkins". I asked my mom for a quarter to get one for my collection, because I thought they were some kind of special bathroom napkins. I couldn't understand why my mom looked mortified and said No, or why the other women in line turned around and looked at me with little smiles on their faces.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- My brother used to believe a feminine napkin was something only women could blow their noses with.Anon
- I used to believe that sanitary napkins was the name of moist towellettesAnon
- I used to belive that sanitary napkins are used by girls coz they have no control over their pee.....— raj
- I used to think wall outlets looked like little faces (eyes and mouth), and so I would talk to them sometimes!— EJ
- I thought you were supposed to take money out of the collection at church.— Wangchuk
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila