Question: Are you 100% sure it was a maxipad? It sounds like the old “Shove some paper in there to hold over until I get to buy one” trick gone horribly awry. Could you tell that it was a stickybacked pad or was it just a bloody mess?
You know, I used to think I was well beyond the point of being shocked by revelations about the female experience.
Live and learn.
Larry, you don’t shove the paper “in”. Just sort of fold it up nicely and place it there with a prayer.
Ah, that sounds much more genteel. Thanks. 
I’m not even reading this thread – the TITLE is TMI enough for me.
Dan… too TMI, yet you opened it to post that?
Can one question someone else’s honesty in MPSIMS, or is that only allowed in the pit?
Peace,
mangeorge
Tubgirl was waaaaaaay nastier than this.
You should come to some of my girls’ weekends in NYC.
You’d probably throw up.
We over-share.
Ava
LOVED the “It is without a doubt the single grossest thing I’ve seen in 3 years.” Part!!!
Now THAT’s good writing!
It was a dark and stormy night, in the movie line … without a doubt the grossest thing I’d seen in 36 minutes…"
Ava, all girls over share! That is one of the reasons we are a mystery to men. Girls talk about everything!
Ok, now I have a story to share. Since it seems that alot of men get weirded out really quick, they might want to skip this. Us girls will analyze it for a week.
My mom and I were at a shopping mall. We went to Sears looking for a bathroom (last resort). Walked in and on the floor in the middle stall was (I kid you not) a used maxi pad. Just laying on the floor. My mom is a registered nurse and she now says that she has seen it all. I could not stop laughing. To top it off, a very well dressed lady walked in and walked right into that stall. She shut the door and starting doing her thing and then we hear “Oh God!”. That just made me laugh harder. My mom almost killed me for laughing so hard.
Women share about themselves, men share about anyone else.
Generally, that is.
Once, at Six Flags (it was called Geagua Lake [sp?] at the time), my cousin and one of his friends and I were in the wave pool. We’re having a grand old time when IT bobbed into view.
A used tampon.
I mean, people who piss in the swimming pool are sick enough, but come on, losing a tampon and just letting it bob in there, like a bloody absorbant cork? Come on.
It gets sicker. My cousin’s friend saw it first. My cousin was oblivious. The friend tried to “steer” my cousin into swimming into it. Luckily, my cousin picked up on the manipulation at the last possible second and floundered out of the way.
I’m sorry I would not want to go up and say “Oh sorry, lost this!” in front of everyone. I am sick but I would probably let it bob.
I don’t know how I would react…I probably would be embarrassed too…but assuming you couldn’t just grab the thing and make for shore fairly descretely, I’d at least say “someone lost a tampon in the wave, you should probably have someone fish it out” to one of the life guards/park workers.
I’ve used tampons all my life, (and I used to be on a swim team), and I never had any problems with them coming dislodged, in water or otherise. Much like the maxi pad in the OP, wouldn’t you feel it happening and take off for the bathroom?
Now I’ll never hear MacArthur Park quite the same way again. This just keeps getting better. 
I have had them become dislodged from not putting it in correctly (far enough up). Yeah trust me you can’t walk right! You hightail it to the bathroom because it is soooo uncomfortable.
Enough about me…what about you? 
LOL
Oh, I’ve had that happen a time or two. Unfortunately. Bleck!
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A friend working in a supermarket was grossed out and surprised to find a jar of urine and a used pregnancy test kit left in one of the aisles. As my friends said “luckily the person was not breeding”.