My mom had to go across the road to our recently divorced neighbour to explain to him that sanitory towels with wings he was using weren't for cleaning windows
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- I thought buffalo wings were wings from a buffalo, for years I looked for their wingsAnon
- I used to believe that if you ate enough chicken wings, you'd sprout wings and be able to fly.Anon
- I used to believe that towels were sleeping ghosts, and at night they would come out and get you— bajd
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- I used to think that in public toilets, the cleaning lady actually lived in the supply cupboard.Anon