AIBU to not have 'guest' sanitary protection in bathroom?

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Long story short, a relatively new friend and teenage daughter visited I later received a text

'Thank you for having us, unfortunately you have caused xxx embarrassment as she could not find the guest tampons and had to come home with toilet paper in her underwear'

Is this a thing? I have never once thought before that I should have pads/tampons in the bathroom, easily accessed by guests

My mum was great and I loved her a lot but we never talked about periods (I bought my own stuff from pocket money/paper round money) and now I'm wondering if this is just another thing I was never told about and feel a bit stupid to be honest

Does everyone else have things available in the bathroom for guests? I'm thinking about other bathrooms I've been in and can't say I've noticed this before?

Hopefully you have a selection of skimmed, semi, full-fat, soya, goats' etc. I mean it's the height of bad manners not to cater to your guests' milk needs.

I've never come across the idea that emergency San pro should be provided. The type is so personal anyway, should I provide a selection?

The mother was being unreasonable to complain, what is that teaching her daughter? Oh precious something went slightly wrong, those nasty unthinking people, the world does revolve around your every tiny need, don't cry I'll tell them off.

What she should have done is told her well done for coming up with a solution. Come up with a contingency plan for the future, like always having a spare in her bag. Then let her know that it's ok to ask politely but not expect. After all the adult may only have tampons the size of a courgette.

Yes, and what about those who can't eat ordinary biscuits? Gluten-free alternative needed, plus some low-carb snack of another kind. Just imagine if you only had plain chocolate digestives in and your guest didn't like them! How could you live with the shame?

tampons the size of a courgette

Ouch.

at anti-venom!!!!

But surely you carry round a portable defibrillator, MrsCripps?

Oh god I forgot to get one !
Im a terrible hostess

I've built an extension to the house so I can install a generator in case we have a power cut. I've also sunk an artesian well in the garden so we will never suffer if there's a problem with mains water.

Bows down to Mimsys superior hostess with the mostest skills.

I was deluded ,I thought a nice Lemon drizzle would cut it

My sis has recently given birth. I have nipped out to Boots and purchased a breast pump, and positioned it on the hall table tastefully flanked by a bunch of carnations. A small label explains "Guest Pump".

Please can we move this to Classics! It's been the most entertaining, maddest thread for ages.

I can barely remember to get the milk in for when people come round

I have been known to show guests into the front room, offer drinks then sneak out the back door to the corner shop because I have no milk/tea/biscuits/sanpro I am a rubbish hostess.

This is totally nuts. Funny

We get sent loads of freebies in work. Kotex was promoting a new type of tampon and decorated the toilets with twiggy trees festooned with fairy lights and tampons dangling from the branches by their strings.

A striking variation on twigs and pebbly shit that I put out there for consideration.

I have been known to show guests into the front room, offer drinks then sneak out the back door to the corner shop because I have no milk/tea/biscuits/sanpro I am a rubbish hostess.

Me too notso. It pisses me off because the corner shop's milk is dear. But that's the price I have to pay for being a rubbish hostess.

Obviously, YANBU and the mum is crackers, as well as rude. I wouldn't have the child in my house again. God knows what she'd expect from an overnight stay! Breakfast in bed and a selection of newspapers?!!

And I had to Google Sanpro .

I can barely remember to get the milk in for when people come round

I think Peekingduck and her "guest pump" have managed to kill two birds with one stone, there.

Sorry, mimsy, you have still failed. You should not be building an extension, but a bomb-proof, nuclear fall-out shelter. Fully equipped with every brand, size and variant of sanpro, even if you've had a hysterectomy.

I think I would probably have a little accident if I went into a pal's loo and saw a guest basket full of tampons and towels sitting there. Maybe all the uber-hostesses might want to take note and keep spare pairs of pants in the baskets for guests with similar continence issues? I'd like the lovely big ones that come up to my belly-button, please (ugly as hell, but so damned comfy!) And you would be very rude not to anticipate I might pee myself laughing at your pretentiousness, so please go out and buy those knickers asap and make sure those baskets are properly stocked.

Lemon drizzle

Anti-venom

Guest pump

This is the funniest thread ever.

My mum worked for a large sanpro company when I was growing up, we always had hundreds of tampons and rolls of cotton wool which were kept in the airing cupboard in her bedroom. None were ever designated "guest sanpro".

If she or I had our period there would be a pack put in the loo (only one loo then) but if not they would stay in the cupboard. When we had people staying, if they needed any they just asked, and she would usually give them a couple of boxes to take home.

The neighbours would often knock at the door for an emergency supply (one year we'd gone on holiday leaving my teenage brother at home. Someone came asking for tampons, he, never one to miss an opportunity, actually sold them to her!).

But never, ever, did we have a twee basket on display filled with them.

My dad did make me a fab set of witches fingers out of the applicators once for a school play.

My dad did make me a fab set of witches fingers out of the applicators once for a school play.

Unused, I take it? You know how upset some people on here get about the use of germ-ridden toilet roll tubes for school projects.

I should keep tampons in the house in case there's a visiting menstruating woman? How utterly bizarre

I can't believe there are people who think that everyone should have guest tampons on display in a neat little basket just in case a guest gets caught out

Has ANYONE seriously suggested this? Really- have they? The baskets were only part of the scathing satire right?

no-one has commented on the fact that a poster suggested that no bin was required because people could FLUSH tampons or take home a used pad.

I didn't dare