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Tampax string...

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ChocolateBiscuitCake · 29/10/2013 17:18

More of a WWYhaveD...

Currently abroad at a smallish family hotel for half term with DC. It is hot and everyone wondering around in swimwear.

Had a momentary smile and some random chat (a few sentences!) with another mother today and as she passed me, I saw the dreaded string just hanging. There was no missing it and I stopped myself from telling her and after wrestling with my conscious felt the moment had passed.

Feel awful.

But it wasn't like she had spinach in her teeth (in which case I would have said something).

Out of interest, wwyd?

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KirjavaTheCorpse · 29/10/2013 17:20

Oh no, how embarrassing... I'd have said something.

It won't have been long before went to the toilet though, and sorted it.

AngelsLieToKeepControl · 29/10/2013 17:22

I would have told her because I would want to be told. I'd have discreetly said something like 'you might want to nip to the loo'.

xCupidStuntx · 29/10/2013 17:26

Oh God I remember in a hospital waiting a mutual friend of the sick person had a big bloody pad sticking out of the back of her trousers!!!
I couldn't tell her in front of everyone so just texted her when I left, which was very quickly!!!

SuburbanRhonda · 29/10/2013 17:27

Why were you looking in the direction of her fanjo, OP ?

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ChocolateBiscuitCake · 29/10/2013 17:30

Oh dear, I feel awful for not saying anything!

Rhonda - she was wearing a salmon pink bikini, had a tan to die for and then this fluorescent white string hanging down the back of her thigh. You simply couldn't miss it!

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CharlieAlphaKiloEcho · 29/10/2013 17:31

I would have mentioned it I think.

I once told a girl in a nightclub that her string was showing. It took every ounce of self control not to point out that if your tampon string was longer then your skirt you might want to re-think your outfit. :o

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ChocolateBiscuitCake · 29/10/2013 17:34

If its any consolation, I deposited a pair of my knickers on the classroom floor when I was a teacher (too tired the night before and pulled trousers and pants to the floor in one motion. Stepped back in them the next morning, pushed pants through a leg and they slowly worked their way out half way through a year 3 maths class!).

Children spotted them and I had to pretend I had no idea who they belonged to (thank god they weren't name taped ).

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peking · 29/10/2013 17:34

Oh God, I was terrified about this happening on holiday. How do you avoid it? Do you...and this is going to be major TMI...sort of clamp the string so it goes up rather than down?

ohmymimi · 29/10/2013 17:34

Shame on you, no chocolate, biscuit or cake until further notice.

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ChocolateBiscuitCake · 29/10/2013 17:36

Peking - I kind of gather it and stuff it my "lips" iyswim &

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peking · 29/10/2013 17:40

Yes, I thought I should do that...but I hate the feeling

Sizzlesthedog · 29/10/2013 18:34

I wouldn't have said anything.

valiumredhead · 29/10/2013 19:54

I wouldn't have said anything because that way she can still cling to the hope that no one noticed, in fact she might bit even have noticed. Anyway tbh so what, she had her period?

JennyOnAPlate · 29/10/2013 20:00

I don't think I would gave said anything...I would be too worried that she'd think I was weird for looking in that area!

I had a similar (only worse) incident at the swimming pool a while back. A woman emerged from the loos and was walking towards me. She had obviously yanked the gusset of her swimming costume to the side to wee and not put it back properly. It was lodged between the camels toes iyswim. I needed a significant amount of brain bleach after that one.

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ChocolateBiscuitCake · 29/10/2013 20:11

Hahahahahahahahaha Jenny - OMG!!!

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Coldlightofday · 29/10/2013 21:01

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Mim78 · 29/10/2013 21:31

I think everyone is probably right to say that it would be best to say something, but I don't think I could have done. Would have been too embarrassed.

Buddhagirl · 30/10/2013 09:57

BaHAHA!

I would not have said anything, I'd be mortified if someone pointed it out to me. Ignorance is bliss. If she noticed she could convince herself that no one saw.

In a particularly stressful time of my life I went to the loo, was not really thinking about what i was doing, wrapped the used applicator in a bit of loo roll, shoved it in my bag!!? Friend asked for a tissue....it was one of the worst things that has ever happened to me.

BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack · 30/10/2013 11:10

I wouldn't have said something and would hate it if a stranger pointed it out to me. She would be nipping off to the loo at some point anyway so it's not like she would be wandering round in that state all day.

Least said, soonest mended (and less red faces):)

samandi · 30/10/2013 11:21

Oh God, I was terrified about this happening on holiday. How do you avoid it? Do you...and this is going to be major TMI...sort of clamp the string so it goes up rather than down?

You can always cut it off further up. No chance of it being dislodged that way. Just don't cut it too high up, it can be a pain to get out :-)

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