Most embarrassing moment due to lack of knowledge?

This thread is great!

When I became sexually active at age 17, no one had ever told me that girls had orgasms, and I was not familiar with all the parts of my anatomy down there. Like the guy would say when we were done, "did you come?" and I would have no idea what he was talking about. He got to teach me.

When I was about 20, I spent some time living in Switzerland and I worked in a big grocery store in the toiletries aisle. I had to restock all the items, answer customer questions, etc. My German was OK but I knew no French, and we got a lot of French speakers. One day this lady came in who spoke only French and was looking for tampons. She asked me where they were but I had no idea what she was talking about. So she tried to use gestures and pantomime to communicate. I just didn't know what she was trying to act out, so at last she stomped off, disgusted. Then I noticed one of my co-workers, a guy about my age, had watched the whole thing and was just totally ROTFL.

Evangelista, that gave me a good laugh! I've been having slow to no Internet connection off and on, and I've been irritated because of it, but that just made me feel so much better! Thank you!

Sunrise, I'm glad your first guy cared enough to teach you. Some guys only care about their pleasure. That's so sweet!

I hope you went up to your co-worker and smacked the heck out of him. You should have gone to one of the cash registers, got on the microphone, and said, "(Co-worker's name) wants TROJANS in EXTRA-SMALL! MICROS if you got'em!"

I had to think about this, but it didn't take long to remember...

I got married at 18, and had my first daughter at 19. So inexperienced!

One day, I went to change my daughter's diaper, and there were *spots* all over her! I rushed her to my pediatrician.

When the doctor came in, I went to show her ALL the many spots that were on her. But there were NONE there. Not a one! I started undoing her diaper and looking all over, but they were gone.

Turns out, she was COLD. That's what the *spots* were. I could've died of embarrassment!!

Jen

LOL. My mum took me to the doctor in a panic one day when I was a toddler. She thought I had a horrific skin disease and she was MORTIFIED when the doctor told her I had flea bites. (We had kitties.)

My most embarrassing moment due to lack of knowledge was a shared moment. My college boyfriend and I were 19 and quite excited (and responsibly planning ahead) for losing our virginity together. We went to the drugstore together and bought spermicidal foam and condoms... all ready for the big, romantic night. Well, it turned out that we had bought UNLUBRICATED condoms. They weren't going ANYWHERE... just wasn't gonna happen. My boyfriend was more embarrassed than I was because he felt that guys should KNOW about that sort of thing. Fortunately, we were able to laugh together at our mistake and after a rather sleepless night (wishing we lived near an all-night drugstore), headed off to the store together first thing the next morning for the lubricated kind.

ohhhhhh soooo funny... LOL (sorry.... I see the embrassing part too)... but this story on Trojans... made my night..

Thank you

When I was about 14 years old my girlfriend and I decided to try and smoke grass. So we ripped up a brown paper lunch bag and pulled some grass out of the ground, rolled it up in the brown paper and lit it and nearly choked to death! Talk about naive. When I told my older brother what we did, he couldn't stop laughing at me. Oh well..........

Grass, that's too funny!!! Reminds me of my reaction to this new illegal drug called "cheese" that was on the news. I was wondering, what's wrong with everyone eating cheese? Until I watched the news

Jen

Cheese? What is it? I mean the drug haha.

It's heroin and tylenol PM mixed together. They showed a pile of it on the news, and it looks like orange powder. I have no idea where the orange color comes from. Weird!

Jen

I never heard of "cheese," either. But apparently, there are some areas where a drug (or drug combo) will be called one thing, whereas, in another area, it has a different name.

Oooh, ladies, this is SOOO funny! XD I honestly can't think of a moment that was caused by "lack of knowledge"... although, when I was little I did have some weird misconceptions about conception and childbirth. I knew that to make a baby, something from the man went into the woman. Naive little thing that I was, I thought it was something that happened when a man and woman kissed or held hands during the wedding ceremony!! I was also convinced that when a woman had a baby it shot out of her belly like a cannon, and the doctor had to be there in order to catch it.

Muse, that put some funny images in my head! There's a comic, and I can't think of his name right now, but he was watching a video of a baby being born, and she was shocked, watching the baby be born. She thought the baby came out the woman's belly button! He asked her if she knew how babies were made, and she said, "Does the man pee on the lady?" LOL!

I can't remember what I thought about babies and how they were made when I was little, but I'm sure I had some crazy ideas, too.

LOL I'm loving this thread. I'll share a quick story here.

When I was about 6, my mother (being a product of the feminist revolution) had always told me I can be whatever I want to be when I grow up. Girls can have anything boys have.

With this in mind, my best playmate at the time was a little boy in the neighborhood. As many little boys that age do, he announced one afternoon that boys have penises and girls have vaginas. I didn't really know what he was talking about, but I remembered my mother's words. Girls can have anything boys have.

So I informed him that girls can have penises too, because we can have anything boys can have!

Amalthea your mom is still correct.......with a little surgery you too can have a penis!

Amalthea, you just reminded me of a video I saw on America's Funniest Home Videos. This little girl was crying because she'd seen her younger brother peeing, and she wanted a "wee-wee," too!

Never mind that, with what we women have, we can have all the penises we want!

Haha. I remember one day I walked by the bathroom and saw my dad standing there going to the bathroom. Then the next day I tried standing and doing what he was doing. Didn't work quite well because I didn't have one of those "things". LOL!

You don't need one of those "things." There are several products you can use, or none at all, to pee standing up.

All About My Vagina: Basic Tutorial on How to Pee Standing Up

But...

Would you want to pee with three other women?

http://www.p-mate.com/eng/wc3.html

all I gotta say is...thank God I am done with all that period stuff! And doesn't this thing look like a red tampon?LOL

usually if you go to the hospital and are of the age to mentruate they will ask when you have had your last period. If it is an emergrncy then they will soon discover the little string and know. Believe me as a nurse it is no different for us to "check" these things out as it would be for a mechanic to check the oil ina car... all matter of fact.
I used to work at a general hospital. We were so used to seeing naked bodies that we said that if every patienty got out of bed and walked single file down the hall naked we would just wonder where they were going.!

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You don't need one of those "things." There are several products you can use, or none at all, to pee standing up.

All About My Vagina: Basic Tutorial on How to Pee Standing Up

But...

Would you want to pee with three other women?

http://www.p-mate.com/eng/wc3.html

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Now I've heard everything!

I was trying to impress someone who I thought was my future mother in law. So I cleaned the fry pan with elbow grease. Then upon showing my great effort she burst into great laughter. I had scrubbed the teflon off a non stick frypan. (my mum had even used a wringer for washing machine)(I was brought up without even a telephone or car etc) but it sort of doesn't matter I never married the guy.

he he Jjulia

Another one is that I used to watch my mum cleaning her false teeth I guess I was about 4.She scrubbed away so hard with a scrubbing brush.....so aghast I asked her .....doesnt that hurt !!!!! she still laughs about it till this day and I'm 50 now. .....plus an uncle of mine laughs about this; ...he bought guinness and lemonade from the bottle shop...and on the way home (we were with him) he dropped the lot and the bottles broke all over the place...so I exclaimed in crying dissapointment....because the lemonade broke..

he he he...Jjulia

hmmm embarrasing moment.... uhhh probably the day me and mom walked into boots,,, we wanted to find some foot thingys, coz i was intending to be up late dancing and my feet were already shot. she walked down a certain aisle, picked up some lubricant, and at the top of her voice asked me wether it would do. wasnt my ignorance it was hers, but everyone was looking in horror at the factthat a mother could be suggesting sex to a 12 yr old....

When I was a teenager I worked in a small grocery store, it was the only one in the area. I was stocking shelves when a man approached me and asked if we sold "prophylactics". I said "I don't know but if you tell me what they are I can tell you were to find them."

He was forced to tell me what they were, I don't know who was more embarrassed, him or I. We did not sell them.