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Big time fun at the menstuation tea this afternoon!!
First, we all filtered in and sat down. My first seat was next to this 60-ish grandma and her grand-daughter. Before the program started, she started this horribly embarrassing conversation with her grand-daughter, asking “So, do you have YOUR period yet, honey?” It was so mortifying, I had to move! I couldn’t imagine EVER asking that in public. I felt so bad for that little girl!
We watched this horrible video from the 80’s called “I Got It!” which was made by Procter and Gamble I think? The mom in it makes a diagram of ovaries and fallopian tubes on her GRIDDLE using PANCAKE BATTER! (I can never eat pancakes again). The whole thing was like watching a 20 minute long commercial for Always - happy people smiling, talking about periods over breakfast….ACK!
It was so contrived and hokey and I was the only mom trying to stifle a laugh, proving without a shadow of a doubt that something is wrong with me. Best scene - talk about vaginal dischange in the kitchen when “Dad” comes home from the grocery store with maple syrup for those ovaries, and a big package of ALWAYS pads.
I felt like the whole tea should have had a sign saying “Sponsered by Always”. The school nurse held up this life saved model of the human body and actually demo-ed how to put in a tampon. My eyes, my EYES!! And she had a whole table full of pads and went into detail on what SHE prefers…TMI, TMI!! The worst thing was when she pulled out a pair of panties and actually showed us how a pad with wings fit onto them.
I just want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon. I’m scared for life.
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Oh. My. Gosh. I feel for you….. how horrible! And this was actually educational to them?? Yikes!
So gross! Sorry you had to endure that, Colleen!! I’ll bet Catherine loved it too!!
I’m sorry….but I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. Mmmmm pancakes…..right! Puulease!
Oh my god, you have got to be kidding about this?!?! Right???? Please say yes….. That sounds absolutely horrible. I am a middle school teacher who just spent the last two weeks saying penis and vagina repeatedly in front of my students…. that is just not right! Menstruation Tea?????
I could just cry… I wish I could have been there just to see your face, LOL!
OMG!! There is nothing wrong with you…I would have been laughing too, at least you stifled it! That is crazy! Good thing they didn’t have any sausage LINKS with those pancakes!! EEWWWW..
Hey - did I tell you we are going to IHOP for dinner Saturday
Just kidding - Poor Catherine. How mortifying……..
Jeez Loueez! Pancakes? That’s the best they could do? I would’ve been laughing like a little kid the entire time; I commend you for keeping your composure! The word “menstruation” in itself would have just put me over the edge! LMAO.