# Ladies: Strangest place you ever did the girl thing TMI **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 6, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529 "2004-04-06T12:44:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SusanViolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@SusanViolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanViolet)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/1 "2004-04-06T12:44:54Z")
Ok. So last weekend I was on a road trip with a girlfriend. We were on a stretch of road with few stops. And that is when I realized my tampon was no longer doing its job. It was cold outside, and we could not find a gas station or rest area. So I had to fix the problem in the car. Which raises the question: Ladies, where is the weirdest place you have been when you had to do the girl thing? ---
**Author:** ![ReverseCowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@ReverseCowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReverseCowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/2 "2004-04-06T13:19:15Z")
The same thing happened to me once. I was with my boyfriend, who was very curious about such things. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/3 "2004-04-06T13:21:38Z")
Oh, _lord_ have I been there. I was also in a car–we were on a road trip so my older brother could look at colleges. I couldn’t have been more than 14, and I was embarrassed as hell to say anything. We had a minivan, and I was camped out in the way back seat. I’m pretty sure nobody saw me do it, sure as hell nobody mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![ReverseCowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@ReverseCowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReverseCowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/4 "2004-04-06T13:40:44Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Oh, _lord_ have I been there. I was also in a car–we were on a road trip so my older brother could look at colleges. I couldn’t have been more than 14, and I was embarrassed as hell to say anything. We had a minivan, and I was camped out in the way back seat. I’m pretty sure nobody saw me do it, sure as hell nobody mentioned it. Wow, that must have been hard to conceal. ---
**Author:** ![SusanViolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@SusanViolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanViolet)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/5 "2004-04-06T14:34:51Z")
> [@ReverseCowgirl](#): > > Wow, that must have been hard to conceal. Yeah. I’m glad that my experience was with someone who understood about such things. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/6 "2004-04-06T14:45:19Z")
It was dark, I was under a blanket, and nobody was paying a damn bit of attention to me, luckily. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ReverseCowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@ReverseCowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReverseCowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/7 "2004-04-06T14:58:21Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > It was dark, I was under a blanket, and nobody was paying a damn bit of attention to me, luckily. 🙂 🙂 A brave rescue nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/8 "2004-04-06T15:38:53Z")
Here I thought this was going to be a thread about mutual lesbian loving ☹ I’m just glad I have no idea what the hell you’re all talking about. ---
**Author:** ![ReverseCowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@ReverseCowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReverseCowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/9 "2004-04-06T16:04:40Z")
> [@Duderdude2](#): > > Here I thought this was going to be a thread about mutual lesbian loving ☹ > > I’m just glad I have no idea what the hell you’re all talking about. Ok . . . . ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/10 "2004-04-06T18:41:59Z")
Augh, I was getting some stuff out of storage and I was standing there inside the storage unit when I realized that my tampon wasn’t doing its job. It seemed fairly urgent and I wasn’t sure what to do – finally I decided just to change it right then and there. The rolling garage-type door was half up. It’s NOT a busy place – I’ve often gone there without seeing anyone else. But just at that vital moment when I’m reaching down is exactly when a guy walked by and looked right in. I just looked away and pretended nothing was happening as I died of embarrassment. I don’t even think he knew exactly what I was doing – probably thought I was some freak with a storage unit fetish… ---
**Author:** ![ReverseCowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@ReverseCowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReverseCowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/11 "2004-04-06T20:24:49Z")
> [@tesseract](#): > > Augh, I was getting some stuff out of storage and I was standing there inside the storage unit when I realized that my tampon wasn’t doing its job. It seemed fairly urgent and I wasn’t sure what to do – finally I decided just to change it right then and there. The rolling garage-type door was half up. It’s NOT a busy place – I’ve often gone there without seeing anyone else. But just at that vital moment when I’m reaching down is exactly when a guy walked by and looked right in. I just looked away and pretended nothing was happening as I died of embarrassment. I don’t even think he knew exactly what I was doing – probably thought I was some freak with a storage unit fetish… Haha. So he just so the lower half of you . . . ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/12 "2004-04-06T22:37:02Z")
> [@Duderdude2](#): > > I’m just glad I have no idea what the hell you’re all talking about. Silly! They’re talking about changing filters! 😃 (Don’t mind me, I’m just the designated “feminine hygene” purchaser in our household) ---
**Author:** ![ReverseCowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@ReverseCowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReverseCowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/13 "2004-04-07T12:41:13Z")
Bumpin this one once. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/14 "2004-04-07T19:57:50Z")
In an article about L7: “This is after all the band who bared their minges on live TV show ‘The Word’ before giving a souvenir of their set when an ovulating Donita Sparks removed her tampon onstage at the Reading festival and hurled it into the crowd in response to a barrage of missiles and mud.” ---
**Author:** ![ReverseCowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@ReverseCowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReverseCowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/15 "2004-04-07T20:03:20Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > In an article about L7: “This is after all the band who bared their minges on live TV show ‘The Word’ before giving a souvenir of their set when an ovulating Donita Sparks removed her tampon onstage at the Reading festival and hurled it into the crowd in response to a barrage of missiles and mud.” The author of the article obviously lacks an understanding of the female reproductive cycle. If she was ovulating, she would not need a tampon. ---
**Author:** ![jujitsuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@jujitsuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jujitsuka)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/16 "2004-04-07T21:50:54Z")
I had slept over at my boyfriend’s (now husband) apartment early in our relationship. When I woke up, I realized I had a leaker, but not until he was already in the bathroom taking his shower. His bathroom was one that had a toilet enclosed in one small room with the shower, and we weren’t yet at the phase in our relationship where we had open bathroom doors, so I was stuck. I decided to change my tampon right there in the middle of his bedroom, while standing up. You’d think I might have been a little smarter, considering I’d been receiving monthly periods for almost TEN YEARS by this point, but no. While removing the tampon, my body decided to let loose a torrent of menstrual fluid all over boyfriend’s cream-colored carpet. I stared at it in horror, finished my business, and went looking for cleaning rags. Then, to make an even bigger dumbass of myself, I joined him in the shower, gave him a fantastic bj, and THEN told him about the carpet. My technique worked … not only did he not freak out, but he actually volunteered to clean the spot so I could get to work on time. Can you believe I married him?? ---
**Author:** ![ReverseCowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@ReverseCowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReverseCowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/17 "2004-04-07T23:32:05Z")
> [@jujitsuka](#): > > Then, to make an even bigger dumbass of myself, I joined him in the shower, gave him a fantastic bj, and THEN told him about the carpet. My technique worked … not only did he not freak out, but he actually volunteered to clean the spot so I could get to work on time. Can you believe I married him?? Sounds like a good move to me. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/18 "2004-04-07T23:52:22Z")
For me it was not _where_ I did the deed (restroom), it was my predicament. We were having lunch in this beautiful teeny town on the Greek island of Corfu. I guess I had my schedule wrong. My period started close to a week earlier than I’d expected. I’d brought tampons, but they were back in the hotel, miles away. I got that lower back dull ache feeling. I was sitting there thinking, uh oh. Explained to my husband (no problem) but also my younger son was there, awkward but oh well, too bad. I grabbed my Greek phrase book (thank you, Lonely Planet) and found the word for tampon. I went to the restaurant owner, said “Please” in Greek, she took one look at me (obvious American) and got her daughter. I showed the daughter the Greek word for tampon. She opened the cash drawer and not only discreetly handed me a tampon, it also happened to be my brand. (OB). ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/19 "2004-04-08T00:49:43Z")
when its “that time” I am always near a bathroom. Though once when I was a dancer, I realized I’d started while on stage. Fortunately, I wasn’t wearing white, got offstage quickly and ran to the bathroom. Though I once danced nude for about a month and decided to stupidly o so with a tampon; I cut the string. Fine, except I couldn’t get it out then, and had to go to the dr. next day. I wish they’d make Super Duper… ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529/20 "2004-04-08T01:26:54Z")
> [@Caprese](#): > > She opened the cash drawer and not only discreetly handed me a tampon, it also happened to be my brand. (OB). She kept tampons in the cash drawer? For some reason I think that’s awesome. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-strangest-place-you-ever-did-the-girl-thing-tmi/238529.md?page=2)