Absolutely.
But it takes planning - if you forget it at home on the wrong day, then you have to go begging.
That’s why I thank goodness for all the other women in this thread!
I said “huh”?
I Googled.
I’m going to lay down now.
Oh yeah, but it won’t do you any good on a sinking rowboat I bet!
You could always use it to start bailing water out of the boat a few ounces at a time…
Yeah, I almost always carry them. Good to have in case of an unexpected arrival, or just if you’re forgetful in general. Also, you never know when one of your friends might need one. They’re not exactly burdensome to transport, either.
Johnny, you just made me laugh so hard I cried–mostly because I was already thinking about that scene. 
I’m an idiot who can never look at a calendar. I therefore have an entire box in my car, at at least three in every purse I own. It’s convenient, because when I forget to buy more and discover I’m out at an inopportune time, I can upend any currently unused handbag and find one.
It’s what I think of whenever I think about tampons. (Not that I think about tampons very much.) Fortunately, I’d saved all of the scripts as HTML files onto my computer well before the site that had them disappeared. After reading this thread, I’ve saved them onto a CD.
I was thinking of that EXACT *Young Ones * scene, Johnny, and no one could have done it so well as Rik Mayall. And I like the euphemism ‘cotton friend’, like it was a little downy soft pal with whom you could commiserate.
Count me in the permanent placement in the desk/purse/car/backpack crowd; and I have given a spare to a stranger who just lacked change for the machine. I always have spares, thanks to an incident involving white shorts and being unprepared at Cedar Point a full week before I was ‘due’.
One of the little joys of being perimenopausal, is you don’t know when; you don’t know how much. I always carry at least enough in my purse to get through a full, heavy, day. I’ve contemplated stashing a below-the-waist change of clothes in my car, too.
One in my desk at work, two in my purse. Always have a couple with you, just in case.
My ex-g/f called them ‘accommodations’, as in: ‘Excuse me a moment. I have to accommodate.’ (She used pads, BTW.)
Better to be prepared than not.
I can’t recall the last time I was surprised, but I’d be willing to wager a substantial amount it will be the very next time I’m unprepared.
Since I always carry the same purse, it’s no hassle for me to tuck a couple into a zippered inside pocket and leave them there against future need. Also that way if a friend needs one, I can lend a hand.
Lend a hand?
I’m pretty much like clockwork on the pill, but I carry a pad around all the time anyway. My periods are so light, except for one day, that I only need to use one tampon on the heaviest night, with a pad for backup so I don’t wreck the sheets. The rest of it, tampons just dry me out and are horrible, so pads work fine.
But it’s a lot easier to keep one in the purse all the time. It’s not like they expire or anything. And I’ve had to use the one in my purse more than once when I underestimated the flow or something.
I don’t carry any around with me. I carry very tiny purses.
I do keep a couple in my car, and a couple here at work, even they are supplied in our restroom for free.
I’m also very regular and I keep track of when I’m due on a calendar, so the only time I have a couple on me is when I’m coming up on the day I am scheduled to begin.
I did keep some in our boat’s bathroom though, and I do keep some in our camping box, so in a situation like that, yes, I would have had an extra or two.
Me too
I haven’t had a period in months thanks to the Pill, but when I did I always carried around my supplies. Even right now I usually have one in my purse; you never know with breakthrough bleeding… It’s much more of a pain to try to anticipate exactly when you’ll need them and only carry them then.
Also, just 'cause she’s carrying tampons/has her period doesn’t mean he’s not going to get much else 
Bwahahaha!
This was the first place I learned of those technological wonders as well. Went to a party later that night with a printed picture to pass around and howl laughing at all the guesses as to what it could possibly be. Good times!
Tampons with applicators are also effective weapons, if shot right. They don’t go far, but men will run from a tampon faster than they will from an axe-wielding maniac, in my experience.
In my purse, in my car, in my desk, in my book bag…
Too many accidents to ever go unprepared.
Both bathrooms, purse, travel kit, work desk, car, SO’s car.
You only have to walk around all morning once, using a wad of toilet paper because you forgot. It’s so much easier to just be prepared.
(snerk) Feminine hygiene and personal protection, all in one handly little package.