I am currently wearing one of DD's nappies as a makeshift sanitary pad...what's the most unglamorous moment of your life so far?!

[BarbaraVineFan]

I have been on the coil since 2020 and literally never had a period or anything approaching one. Randomly tonight I have come on my period and had nothing in the house :/ no friends locally enough to ask and DD asleep so couldn't go to a shop.. Hence the nappy trick (which feels a bit like wearing an entire roll of loo roll in my knickers!)

I think this might be a new low in the unglamorous stakes, even for me. Can anyone top this?!

Totally agree, this will be marmitecoriander's very own contribution to a 'most embarrassing moment thread' at some point in the future.

Marmite, that's the single most pathetic comment I've ever read on Mumsnet and having re read many of my own, that's saying something! Embarrassed for you.

I was once sick on a tube platform. Only had a plastic bag to hand so used that. Unfortunately It had the little safety holes punched out at the bottom creating a strainer effect.

Exactly this.

I have Colitis and literally have a few seconds warning sometimes.

Do some research before judging

@Cherryblossom99 ·

Oh yes I can say I am with you there and it doesn't matter how thick the pad is, you get leakage out of the legs.

This is why I wear long tunics and bring a longish coat even in summer!

At work I don't have time to put the "Back Soon" notice up, I just have to hobble down the corridor (my rhematic run). We are supposed to ask a porter to cover while we have a wee but they either refuse or are too busy - this is all time wasted when you could be peeing.

My worst was having the shits on a tube. It smelt vile too! I was so worried it would travel out of my trouser legs.

I got to St Pancras where the loo is very far away dammit. I had to go to Boots for some medication and more importantly some of those large baby wipes. Thankfully being incontinent (front end) I had a change of pad and pants. Amazingly it had.t gone through to my jeans.

Actually the worse moment was at my Brother's. I went to go loo (Ordinary wee and I wear incontinence pants) at 3am and suddenly shit was coming out like there was no tomorrow. I had my incontinence pants on but it managed to spray all over the place and again it sprayed all over the bathroom, shower curtain included. I cleaned up what I could but the carpet outside the bathroom was marked. I could not find anything to clean it with so told my brother in the end when he was up.

To make matters worse My SIL grumbled about having her sleep interupted by my Brother cleaning the carpet!

So I now feel that although this wasn't deliberate on my part that I would not be welcome so will not go down there anymore!

If you have never experienced incontinence you have no idea the (literally) shit situations it can get you into do you ?!! Your comment about being scared of shit travelling out of your trouser legs made me howl - not making light of your situation, it was just hilariously well put. Put me in mind of padding myself up more than usual for a long car journey and ending up with shit halfway up my back because the padding was so tight there was no room left !! Can’t believe I shared that !!!! Brilliant thread - so impressed at how people can cope with distressing conditions with such good grace and humour.

Stuck in heavy snow, in heavy gridlocked traffic, in the dark after hours of trying to do a 9 mile journey. So very desperate for a wee, I folded up the blanket I'd used over the windscreen, tucked it under my bum, pulled my trousers down and let go. Similar thing happened to a colleague suffering from extremely heavy periods - stuck in traffic in snow, giving a male colleague a lift. She felt a huge flood leave her, and just had to sit there in it and drive home.... I've never forgotten her telling me that.

Accidentally weed all over my favourite suede bag.

@Lo@Lovelysausagedogscrumpy
Put me in mind of padding myself up more than usual for a long car journey and ending up with shit halfway up my back because the padding was so tight there was no room left !! Can’t believe I shared that !!!! B

Oh yes the horror of shit travelling up your back over the waist of your knickers!!!! It gets everywhere!

I am rather lucky(!) that whenever I get Norovirus (had it about 3 times) I only vomit. But before I do that I faint! Something to do with high blood pressure according to my doctor.

Due to my ongoing incontinence going out is a real problem trying to find a toilet.

I complained on another thread about public toilets - lack of. One place I went to three places have out of order signs and three coffee shops were too small for a loo! Thank goodness for Maccy D's.

All those holier than thou's who have never been caught short, I hope reading these pages has given you some understanding!

Why did you hide in bushes to take your socks off?! Surely finding a bench or similar would have been far more helpful.

I've weed in a nappy more than once in the car. Mainly because DS was asleep and I couldn't wake him so I could go to the toilet.

I had to do the same once OP. I was abroad at night and breastfeeding so wasn’t expecting it.

unfortunately it also fell out of my knickers in a public loo and landed in it. That definitely tops you lol

Why did you need to hide in bushes? Were you being followed by a foot fetishist? Or do you belong to a crazy religious sect who has decided a woman’s feet are as erotic than a woman’s hair and need to be covered at all times.

Had to pull over into a lay-by to have a wee. Rather than getting the kids out of the car so I could go find a bush I put the kids’ potty on the seat and had a wee in the car but unfortunately a fair bit tipped out. It was my husband’s car and I never have told him. I did give it a good clean though.

Like a previous poster I have also got caught short on a dog walk and had to use a poo bag to pick up my own.

Yep. Not my finest moment and because student flat loo broke (not blocked just wouldn't flush) and landlord wouldn't send someone to fix it. DH and I laugh about our dirty little secret. Shudders.

So what? Whatever floats their boat, it's not like anyone is identifiable on here and if they're not wanking over this they're wanking over something else

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Dear God!

How did he discreetly achieve THAT?

Surely you could feel that?

I’ve often found that when it’s clear that I’m not going to make it to the loo in time, the overwhelming impulse is to at least get off the carpet and onto the tiles !!

That's pretty much how sanitary towels used to feel like 😂
Once I was trying on a top in some changing rooms, gawd knows what it was made from, it felt like sack cloth and had no give in it at all. It became completely stuck on my head, I started to panic and had to shout for help. Three other(chuckling) women got to see the most disgusting bra I have ever owned in my life, holes and all.

Friend of mine often gets caught short on dog walks and needs a poo out of nowhere. She is now at the point that when she goes out for dog walks she looks for 'good sticks' for the dog, and 'good leaves' for her makeshift toilet roll collection. I've suggested she take some loo roll and a bag with her but that's a 'faff'

Oh dear. A porn thread for some very weird individuals.

I read most unglamorous moments and settled in for a variety of incidents but I suppose weeing and shitting ourselves left, right and center tops everything else.

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This

Haha this is brilliant.

I had to mime 'laxatives' in a busy chemist in Crete. That was interesting and I was puce with embarrassment. The young man trying to decipher my charade suddenly bellowed "AH! YOU WANNA MAKE DA POOP POOP!" So happy he was to have figured it out as I nodded and shrivelled up into a ball of mortification