# Stupid PMS!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2000, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071 "2000-07-27T16:39:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/1 "2000-07-27T16:39:14Z")
Maybe this belongs in the Pit. I don’t know. I don’t know much of anything right now. Our power went out very early this morning, like around 2:30 am. It came back on, but as a result, my alarm clock didn’t go off. I called in to work to tell them I’d be late. Well, My Friend came to visit today. I don’t normally call in to work due to PMS/menstrual problems. It’s not usually so bad I can’t cope. But I’ve got bad cramps and a queasy stomach, so I decided to stay home, instead of going in late. I picked up the phone to call work, _and I could not remember my work phone number._ The number that _I called just a few hours earlier._ My husband was not home at the time. The number I call to reach actual humans at work is not listed in the phone book. I had to wait until my husband got home to ask him what the phone number is. He told me. I dialed it wrong. I asked him again. He told me again. I dialed it wrong _again._ I asked him _again._ He told me again, then said “is it that bad, honey? Maybe you should lay down.” I did get through, eventually. Sometimes, I hate PMS. ---
**Author:** ![Brunetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Brunetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunetter)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/2 "2000-07-27T16:57:27Z")
I’ve never heard air-headedness being attributed to PMS before. Not that I don’t believe you of course, it’s just a new one on me. My special PMS syptom is bursting into tears for no reason. So if it was me telling that story, I would have got to the part where I decided to call in sick and realized I couldn’t remember the number, then burst into tears and went on an hour-long crying jag. Just trying to make you feel less alone! ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/3 "2000-07-27T17:16:18Z")
Both of these posts need to be copied, saved, and resurrected the next time someone suggests the we simply MUST have a woman for president. :: ducks and runs :: ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/4 "2000-07-27T18:25:35Z")
Hey, SouthernStyle: I can take a Midol. What’s a guy gonna do when he’s an irrational, whiny, moody bitch? ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/5 "2000-07-27T18:31:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cher3 \* > \*\*Hey, SouthernStyle: > > I can take a Midol. What’s a guy gonna do when he’s an irrational, whiny, moody bitch? \*\* BWA-ha-ha-ha…I’m gonna use that on my husband. 😃 I swear this has been the crappiest week, for the same reason as your crappy morning, plus a few more. I really needed that laugh. Monday I got no sleep all day (work nights) because of phone calls, insomnia, stomach pain, thunder and lightning and all kinds of other crap. So it finally gets quiet, I doze off and neighbor comes out to weed-eat his lawn. Now I LIKE this neighbor. And he has every right to weed-eat at 7pm. However, I was so strung-out, emotional, and crabby that I ranted and raved and told hubby that neighbor was going to end up with a weed-eater up his ASS if he didn’t go the HELL away…and so on and so forth. Hubby thought that was pretty funny. Damn him. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/6 "2000-07-27T18:38:50Z")
**TroubleAgain** Hubby was right – but he’ll reconsider the next time he hears a weed-eater while suffering a hangover! **cher3** Get a blowjob – It always makes me feel better. 😉 :: still ducking :: ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/7 "2000-07-27T18:40:49Z")
Yeah, SouthernStyle! Neener neener neener! Neener! Oh no. I just realized something. This is not the first PMS thread I’ve started. I think I started one last month. Excuse me while I go eat some fudge and try desperately to think of something original to say. ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/8 "2000-07-27T18:44:25Z")
In fact **Persephone** , you sound like a woman that could use a good blowjob. Damn the red tide – full speed ahead! (so to speak.) ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/9 "2000-07-27T18:53:39Z")
A _what???_ How DARE you mention sex to me at a time like this! I’m bloated, crampy, irritable & hungry! My clothes don’t fit right, and I can’t find my car keys. There’s nothing on TV, and the dishes need washing! :::dissolving into uncontrollable sobbing::: All this horrible _stuff_ going on, and YOU bring up SEX. How _could_ you? You insensitive weenie. Hold me. Hey, you look kinda nice in those jeans. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/10 "2000-07-27T18:56:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cher3 \* > \*\*Hey, SouthernStyle: > > I can take a Midol. What’s a guy gonna do when he’s an irrational, whiny, moody bitch? \*\* Nuke a country or two. It’s a male thing. 😃 (ducks and runs) ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/11 "2000-07-27T19:03:47Z")
Hah! I don’t have PMS, no siree! ::Swiddles stops, considers the second bowl of frozen banana/chocolate frozen yogurt she just HAD to have because it was SO FREAKIN’ GOOD, and looks at the calendar:: Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/12 "2000-07-27T19:04:06Z")
**SaintZero** , we could always nuke Massachusetts. Except for Ted Kennedy not being able to appear on CNN every night it could be years before anyone noticed… Apologies to you, **Persephone**. I wasn’t trying to take your PMS rant into a MPSIMS party. But you said it yourself – you started one of these things LAST month. It’s kind of like crying wolf, or listening to Clinton deny that he had sex with Monica – we get immune. Besides, if the symptoms were THAT bad you’d have stated, “I’m bloated, crampy, irritable & hungry! My car does’t fit right, and I can’t find my clothes. There’s no dishes on the TV, and the damned thing needs washing!” At which point I’m going to _help_ Saintzero find the nukes! {{{Persephone}}} ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/13 "2000-07-27T19:12:54Z")
::: rips **SouthernStyle’s** arms off and beats him viciously about the head and shoulders with them ::: Don’t mess with Sunshine on PMS. My first insticnt is to sob violently over tiny things. _Example: Mr. Sunshine: (sitting down to dinner) Oh, sweetie…you forgot to put out the butter. Me: **WAAAHH!** Why do you criticize EVERYTHING I do? (runs from room)_ My second instinct, if I can stop crying long enough, is to destroy/maim/hurt things or people. Usually I can supress this one (for the safety of Mr. Sunshine). _Continuation of previous example: Me: (coming back in to room) What’s the matter with you? Why can’t you be supportive?! (throwing salt shaker) Mr. Sunshine: (eating silently, fends of salt shaker with left hand while hoisting fork with the right.) Me: (looking around for more stuff to throw or break)_ Definitely for a few days each month I am a completely different person. {{{Persephone}}} ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/14 "2000-07-27T19:20:40Z")
**SouthernStyle** said: > [@](#): > > **SaintZero** , we could always nuke Massachusetts. Could you give us some warning before you do that. I’ll need to get my PlayStation. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/15 "2000-07-27T19:29:17Z")
Massachusetts? Nah. Go for Rhode Island. Two reasons (3): 1. The biggest asshole I have ever met lives there. 2. It’s the state you always forget about. 3. Hi, Opal. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/16 "2000-07-27T19:30:36Z")
SouthernStyle: It’s not really crying wolf. See, last month I didn’t forget my work phone number. This month, I did. This month, I also forgot that I had started a PMS thread last month. Last month’s symptoms were _different!_ So there! And you can turn this in to a party if you want to–the real beauty of PMS is that while it can sometimes be difficult to live with, it’s usually pretty easy to laugh with. If I didn’t _want_ you to point & laugh, I’d have never shared my out-of-body-experience-intensity-forgetfulness. 😃 Sunshine: _Classic_ PMS! Especially since Mr. Sunshine so _rudely_ demanded that you give him butter _now,_ and you went to the kitchen for the butter, and returned with the salt shaker. You go, girl! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/17 "2000-07-27T19:37:47Z")
I guess I’m an anomally. I’m 39, and I don’t think I’ve ever had PMS. Even my periods are no big deal. 2, 2 1/2 days and it’s dome. Occasionally cramps, not usually. StG ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/18 "2000-07-27T19:41:33Z")
::Swiddles glares at St. Germain:: ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/19 "2000-07-27T19:44:15Z")
One of the first dead-giveaway signs of PMS is denial. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071/20 "2000-07-27T20:01:44Z")
Being a guy, (Unlike **Duck Duck Goose** I’ll fess up from the beginning 😉 ), I obviously have no first hand experience with PMS. Everything I know is second hand (or in **Sunshine** ’s case, back hand). A violent person doesn’t bother me, though a violent woman would scare me bunches more than a violent man. (I’m a big guy. Big guys don’t usually have tendencies toward violence. LITLLE men are an entirely different problem, but easily dispatched. And I’ve been on the receiving end of a couple of violent women. They don’t fight fair!) I laugh at the PMS stuff because I don’t understand it. I’ve never even had a girlfriend that suffered severe PMS. Mrs. SS has only moderate PMS. It’s a good thing too, cause I’m one of those people that is disgustingly healthy and doesn’t have much patience with sick people. How in the heck did I ever let this get SERIOUS??? Uh, **Persephone** , if a blowjob won’t help you out, perhaps you could help out some guy that has to endure your plight? 😉 :: heading for North Dakota – noone will waste a Nuke there :: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-pms/27071.md?page=2)