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.

Sorry. Maybe I shouldn't be laughing... but you guys are too much!! Now I KNOW I'm old because there's NO WAY I would post anything like you guys have! Does that count for the embarrasing part? I can admit I've had several of the same experiences but AIN'T NO WAY I'm gonna say which ones!

Lol, my life is an open book. I'll share anything. =) Maybe in a few years I won't be so open lol!!!!

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Sorry. Maybe I shouldn't be laughing... but you guys are too much!! Now I KNOW I'm old because there's NO WAY I would post anything like you guys have!

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Good luck getting away with that excuse SeptemberMorn -- remember when there weren't adhesive napkins and you'd get the belt hooks stuck in your hair? OUCH!

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remember when there weren't adhesive napkins and you'd get the belt hooks stuck in your hair? OUCH!

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Or your butt got hungry and tried to eat the elastic in the back, and the gripper dug into your crack?? OUCH!!!

I had an acquaintance that called her period "the curse". I used to condemn her for it in my mind. "Yeah, it's a curse to you because you can't have kids!" I was glad I had a period... but guess what? When I got done having my kids, it DID become a curse! GAWD, I hated it!!! So, I took care of that little problem and had a hysterectomy! No more curse! LOL

Ooooh, did my aunt get on my case about it, though.

Douching is also bad because, some girls and women used to think (maybe still do?) that douching after sex could help prevent pregnancy, by washing the sperm out, but it actually increases the risk, because it washes upwards first, pushing the sperm into the uterus area. This is also why you're more at risk for developing yeast and other infections, because it pushes the bacteria further into you.

You're also not supposed to do colonic irrigation, except perhaps if a doctor tells you to. Some people do it as a health fad--there are actually centers where you can just go in and get a colonic! But you can weaken your rectal muscles and even make it so you can't poop properly. Again, your body has its own way of cleaning you out. If you want to help your body, drink lots of water, and don't eat heavy or unhealthy foods.

And okiedokie, that was great, about the TV repairman!

<font color="green">I don’t know that I have any stories as funny as y’all have but I do have a few.

I was one of those girls who had an awful time with their menses, so at age 13 I had to have a pelvic exam. It seemed like have the staff of the clinic was in there with me, a doctor, two interns and two nurses to guard my innocence. First, I had that wonderful horror of being gassy when the doctor pressed on my tummy. But even worse was the doctor turning to one of the interns [with his hand in there] that “this girl will never have a problem with having children – she is built for it.” Even worse, he had no clue as to why I had so much pain. Sigh.

I was also one of those dumb women who got toxic shock cos I had to use two tampons at a time or would have blood everywhere. One time I must have forgotten that there were two and left the other one in – I had this ugly discharge and the doctor pulled out this nasty green thing. I was soooooo embarrassed.
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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.

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But...

Would you want to pee with three other women?

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