Most embarrassing moment due to lack of knowledge?

What's yours? Goodness, I know I have bunches, but one that really stands out in my mind is...

I was sixteen years old. My boyfriend and sister-in-law wanted me to go swimming with them but I was on my period. I'd never worn a tampon and my sister-in-law encouraged me to. She began to hound me. My boyfriend wanted me to as well, of course.

I didn't want to. I was afraid to try a tampon and it showed. Finally, in frustration and after other excuses I said, "I have to pee everytime I swim. I can't go hours without pee'ing!"

Yes, a 16-year-old, straight-A student, missed that one in life and in health class! I didn't know there was a separate opening "down there"! LOLOLOL

Yes, they both laughed at me and I had to stand there while my sister-in-law explained it to me IN FRONT OF MY BOYFRIEND!

KD

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I didn't know there was a separate opening "down there"! LOLOLOL

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Don't feel bad! I didn't either! But then, we didn't have sex education of any kind when I was in high school.

OUCH! Goddess knows I've my share of embarrassing moments due to innocence and naïveté!

By the time I was in fifth grade, I had already started developing breasts, and they were quite full. I walked into shop class, and this one boy who always picked on me asked me, "What's that?" I thought he was pointing at the parrot on my shirt. I told him it was a parrot, and he said, "No, that!" "What???" "That bump!" Everyone laughed. He laughed, "She'll probably start crying now." Actually, I didn't cry much in front of people, and I didn't then, either. But it was humiliating, anyway. Today it would be sexual harassment, I think.

If I'd had the saucy mouth I do now, I'd have said something like, "Maybe one day, a girl will take pity on you and tell you!" or, "It's obvious you've never seen or felt one! And trust me, no one's surprised!"

I wasn't really embarressed but way uncomfy. I was in 8th grade and wanted to wear tampons. It took an act of congress to get my mom to let me. Well I just didn't know how to put them in and had to almost lay down in my seat at school. It hurt so bad because I didn't have it far enough in lol

I only started wearing tampons about a year ago. I still don't like them....but they're so much more discreet. I don't have any embarassing stories with them though. I'll have to think about an embarassing story.......the only one coming to mind isn't all that embarassing though. But anyhow, a bunch of us were hanging out on a tennis court at a conference one day and there was a game of dodge ball. I got injured. Of course, Dodge Ball is a dangerous game, so would you be suprised if I told you I was injured during a game of it? No. Well, I wasn't injured playing the game. I was just tossing a ball back and fourth with this girl and a gust of wind came and blew the ball off track, so I went to run after it and got top heavy and did a chest plant on the tennis court. I had road rash on my elbow that was black, and had the wind knocked out of me. All for going after a ball. I walked into the hotel and up to the desk and asked if they had any big bandages. All she had was tape and paper towels. So we put antiseptic on it and wraped my arm in paper towels. I was "proud" to have the first battle scar of the conference, all for chasing after a ball. People asked me what happened and I said I fell at the tennis courts, so everyone assumed I got hurt during the game of Dodge Ball. When I informed them what really happened, there was a lot of laughing.

I just realized how off topic that is.....it wasn't due to lack of knowledge hahahahaha. Ok let me turn it around, I forgot the law of inertia and thats why I fell? LOL.

When I first got my period I was in junior high school. I was paranoid that the blood would leak through my pad to my pants. So, I would wear 3 pairs of panties just to be certain that there would be no blood stains on my pants. Thinking back.......It must of have looked funny.......I was petit and for 4 days out of every month for 2 years my bum would grow and then go back to normal size!

LOL!!!!! Thats too funny!

My most embarrassing moment was when I got my first period. I "matured" early and got my period in fifth grade. My mother came to school with me to whisper to my teacher about it (which was mortifying enough!). But worse was that our desks were in clusters, and I was in a cluster of all girls, and one day I came to school carrying a purse. NOBODY carried purses in 5th grade. They all started hounding me about what the purse was for, and I turned beet red and wouldn't answer ... so when I went up to the teacher's desk to ask a question, while my back was to them, one of them went in my desk and looked in the purse!!!

I couldn't have been more horrified to come back to my desk and have five 10-year-old girls telling me, "It's OK Candy, it's nothing to be embarrassed about."

To this day, I talk to one of those girls, and I have never let her forget that! I have never been so humiliated!

That wasn't lack of knowledge either, I guess, sorry! LOL

Well this was embarrassing to me...

I was about 16 or 17 and was flatting / boarding with this lady who was 27 and her two kids who were around 5 and 7. I was digging around in the freezer for some ice-cream or something and she was making cookies or whatever. It took me ages to find the ice-cream. I took it out and got some. I tried to open the freezer door to put it back. And I tried and I tried and I tried. And the damned door wouldn't open. And I couldn't quite believe it so I tried a bit more. And then I was like 'xxx the door appears to be stuck'. And she was kinda distracted but she glanced over and said 'give it a minute'. And I was like 'What? I can't get the door open'. And she looked at me strangely and was like 'yeah, just wait a minute'.

Apparantly there is some kind of seal on freezers. Don't know if they intentionally make 'em that way or whether it is to do with the air pressure. When the inside of the freezer starts to warm up ('cause the door has been open too long) then the door won't open until the inner temerature drops.

That was kinda embarrassing...

These are great!

OK, I reallly don't want to tell this but I will. It still pains me to this day.

I went to the pool just because a guy I REALLY liked was there. You know the kind...popular, gorgeous, all the girls saying, "hot". I borrowed my girlfriend's bathing suit because I was staying at her house.

I flirted and was feeling really good about myself because this boy was really showing interest. I was about 16.

My g/f's bathing suit was so cute. the string that went around the neck met in the middle of the body of it.

I got out of the pool, strutted (literally) around the side and dove in. I swam over to this cute, popular boy and stood up right in front of him in the 3 ft. pulling myself up by the side of the pool. I had no clue that I stood up and the top of the suit didn't!

Where it met in the middle by just a string, the force of the dive drove the two soft cups down.

I had no clue this had happened and was smiling and talking, still feeling good when my g/f starts screaming my name, swims over to me and literally yanks the suit up.

The boy was fully aware and didn't say a word!

And, yes, I got asked out on a date. I didn't decline.

LOLOLOL

KD

I was about 4 yrs old at a friend's birthday party playing the usually games and I was told by one of the moms that I got the boobie prize. In my mind, boobies equaled breasts....so I kept asking when do I get my boobie prize... the moms just giggled!

I started my period when I was in sixth grade and was really uncomfortable with the idea of using pads ( I didn't think it would be enough protection). While I was with my mom shopping I saw a pack of Depends and I thought they were just regular protective, disposable underwear and I pleaded with my mom to get them. She kept trying to explain to me what they really were, but I was stubborn and insisted they would be better for me. Once we got home I put one on and it made the biggest bulge in my pants all the way around. I felt so bad about wasting the money to get them that I continued to wear them for a while and every move I made I was convinced the whole world could hear the crinkle noise it made.

I had a very heavy period (and severely bad cramps) as a teen. My solution for preventing blood stains was to wear two pads. And they didn't have the super-thin kind they do now, or at least not that I can remember. I'd have one closer to the front, and one that covered more in the back.

But, another embarrassment, only it's something that didn't embarrass me at the time (although maybe it came up and I was embarrassed). This is something that embarrassed me later in life when my mom told me about it. I walked into the bathroom as a kid, and my mom had a douche hanging on the bathroom closet door. I don't know what douches are like now (I've never used one), but this was a water bottle-like thing, with a long tube and a piece at the end. I didn't know what it was, and I don't know why, but I put the piece at the end in my mouth!!! After my mom told me what it was and what it was for, I was grossed out and I don't usually tell people about that. Nobody reads these boards, right?

I used to do the same thing with pads. I was SOOOOOOOOO grateful to eventually move to tampons (once I got up the courage to try them). Used to have this problem with tampax because they would expand lengthways instead of widthways (go figure) so they had a tendency to leak down one side and get really uncomfortable. I wasn't so happy about moving from the applicator to no applicator but the school nurse praised the virtues of widthways expansion and she was right!

Ew. I didn't know that there was such a contraption (with respect to the second half of your post). I'd heard of that but I guess I thought it was a doing word (for the activity) and I didn't know there were implements (so I guess I just learned something new)

When I was about 15, I was suffering from really horrible cramps during ovulation. The doctor was thinking I was getting ovarian cysts. We naturally form cysts when we ovulate, and then the fallopian tube comes and breaks the cyst and takes the egg. They were pretty sure my cysts weren't breaking. I had experineced extreme pain one night so my mom called the doctor, and they wanted to do an ultrasound to see if I had had one pop and cause sepsis. I thought it would be like the ultrasounds the pregnant women get but NO, they had to an internal sonogram.

I was still a virgin, and did not use tampons. I was not used to having something 'up there', but internal sonograms are like a probe that they insert to the edge of the cervix. I was so uncomfortable when I saw what was to go in there......

Then the radiologist says "We have some medical students who would like to observe this procedure, is that ok?" Being the little people pleaser I have always been, and not realizing they wouldn't just be looking at the monitor, I said OK. So in parade about 9 young male medical students, so watch the whole procedure. So I'm laying there on my back, feet in stirrups, in front of all these young students. EMBARASSING!!!!!!!

Ohhhhh, that had to have been horrible! Those internal ones are the PITS, even when you're an adult and not a virgin anymore! Truly uncomfortable. And to have had a crowd watching --- I'm so sorry. That had to be really awful.

I can look back on it now and laugh, but yeah, it wasn't pleasant. =)

ohh Ray!!!! When I went thru infertility treatments I had to do that too to make sure of when I was ovulating and all that. It is embarrassing. Luckily though I didnt have to do it in front of all those men!!!! OMG!!!

Yeah, the douche thing was definitely an "ew" moment once I found out what it was. And yeah, they are nouns, not just verbs.

I actually didn't use tampons for most of my menstrual life. I think the first time was when I worked in a peep show, and you had to work even when you were on your period. Some girls simply used tampons as they were, some cut the strings, and some actually rolled up paper towels and used them. I was afraid of it getting stuck, so no way was I going to cut the string. I hated working while on my period.

They were difficult for me, because I wasn't "stretched," even though I wasn't a virgin. (I've had pain with intercourse ever since the beginning, but that's another topic.) It got easier to use them, though. Anyway, I quit using them after I quit work, and went back to pads. However, I've started using them again in the past months, because they're so much easier than having the mess. At first, I really had a hard time. I mean, I can't explain it, but after putting them in, I had this overwhelming emotional feeling, and I just wanted to cry. It's still a bit uncomfortable, but once they're in, I'm ok.

They say you can wear them up to eight hours, but I usually sleep more than eight hours, especially on my period (I generally sleep 10-14 hours on my period), so I switch to a pad when I go to bed. I hate having to deal with the mess when I get up, though.

I'm having my period right now, and when I first got it, and now when I get it (not the years in-between), I have it for three days or so, then it stops almost completely for about a day, and then it starts up again (which it just did a little while ago), very heavy and I usually suffer cramps (which I am now). It gets lighter over the next couple of days, of course, before stopping. Does anyone's period do this? When I was a kid, my doctor told me it was normal, but I didn't know anyone else whose did that.

Rayna, that's such a horrible story for a 15 year old! But it's a great story to share, because when these things happen, we feel like we're the only one in the world who goes through morbidly embarrassing stuff like that, but in sharing it, we see we all have mortifying moments. Thanks for sharing that!