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

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EasyCube · 29/05/2014 18:16

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'

Confused

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 Sad

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?

OP posts:
FidelineandFumblin · 29/05/2014 19:27

Are you the person who visited with me on Sunday?

Hardly Easy. I wouldn't dream of sending anyone such a twatty text.

Charlieboo30 · 29/05/2014 19:28

I don't have specific guest san pro but there are tampons/sanitary towels in the see through drawers by the loo. I would not expect anyone to ask if they needed one - just help yourself! I don't count them or anything so I doubt I'd notice!

Finding it a bit odd that some people's DP would be horrified with them on show. Dear God. They do know periods exist, don't they?

flameprincess · 29/05/2014 19:29

Also, am I the only one that had to Google 'sanpro'? Blush

FriedaMensch · 29/05/2014 19:29

How do you know if you are in "The Guest Loo", rather than, say, "The Downstairs Loo?"

Do some people have bathrooms that they never use, and are reserved for guests? Do you have a sign on the door that alerts visitors to this fact? What happens if someone uses The Wrong Loo?

Raskova · 29/05/2014 19:29

wtf is sanpro???

I haven't had periods for years (mini pill not menopause) but when I did all products were kept well hidden in my bedroom.

My mum kept them in the airing cupboard but she's not embarrassed about them at all. They're in her tiny handbag and can be seen every time she opens it Shock

Wellwellwell3holesintheground · 29/05/2014 19:30

Text back 'OMG she used my private bathroom? FFS Angry She should have used the guest bathroom. The attendant would have made sure she was well looked after'

Charlieboo30 · 29/05/2014 19:30

San pro - sanitary products I believe.

FidelineandFumblin · 29/05/2014 19:30

I don't have specific guest san pro but there are tampons/sanitary towels in the see through drawers by the loo. I would not expect anyone to ask if they needed one - just help yourself!

Yes - that's what I meant too - in a glass-fronted cabinet.

Thank god you showed up Charlie, was beginning to wonder if it was just me!

Original poster
EasyCube · 29/05/2014 19:32

@EvansOvalPiesYumYum Now I'm thinking I should put tampons on my next shopping list, place them decoratively in a basket, surrounded by candles, clearly labelled "GUEST TAMPONS". This, I am most certain, will cause great hilarity.

YES we could team up and go on esty and market are own 'monthly female guest basket' known as MFGB's ...lets take this idea to Dragons Den Grin with the female candles too ..

Thank you for all making me laugh and see I was not as daft as I thought I was!

As I mentioned before I am embarrassed around periods and had a horrible experience learning and dealing with them and sort of thought this was another bit I'd missed so I'm delighted that that's not the case

I have spent quite a long time explaining to my sons about periods etc which took a lot to break through that taboo I felt around menstruation

So yeah thank you all again

OP posts:
Raskova · 29/05/2014 19:32

Oh thanks Charlie. Seems obvious now Blush

I thought I was missing something

facedontfit · 29/05/2014 19:32

I'm agog Shock - how rude, I hope this new "friend" is now an old friend!

To conclude - no one on this thread or the world has ever heard of guest tampons!!

BikeRunSki · 29/05/2014 19:32

Old enough to use tampons, old enough to carry them.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 29/05/2014 19:33

She's a tit!

Do reply with ' really?, I wasn't aware this is required, are you on glue?'

Imagine her Confused face.

zzzzz · 29/05/2014 19:34

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Charlieboo30 · 29/05/2014 19:34

Fideline - phew! I just find it odd that people would ask. It's not like they've rifled through my food cupboards and made themselves a three course meal, it's a 10p tampon.

DP has just said why would they ask? People don't ask if they can use some loo roll do they?

Bellezeboobian · 29/05/2014 19:34

In my teens there's no way I'd have gone 'oh gosh mum, she didn't even have any guest tampons so I had to use loo roll!'

ToysRLuv · 29/05/2014 19:35

My stuff is in the cupboard in the toilet. Also, after having an accident while visiting family friends, and staining one of tgeir beige dining chairs (my periods were quite unpredictable and I'd only had them for about a year, so was still a bit inexperienced and young to carry stuff in handbags), I would gladly help anyone to find it, if they couldn't do it by themselves.

KatieKaye · 29/05/2014 19:36

a downstairs loo is just as under-equipped if it's missing tampons as it would be if it was missing soap or toilet paper

But I don't have a cupboard in my downstairs/guest loo.
Should I put one in and stock it with an assortment of sanpro?
Just in case?

No, would never even consider it. There lies madness.

Besides which, downstairs loo is tiny and putting in a cupboard is impossible. Oh, and I've lived here for 25 years, had hundreds of guest and nobody has ever suggested that I should supply sanitary products for their benefit. Because you provide your own. Or use loo paper. Hasn't every menstruating woman done that at one time or another? it's not exactly a big deal.

CorusKate · 29/05/2014 19:38

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WhereTheWildlingsAre · 29/05/2014 19:39

zzzzz Grin

Lauren83 · 29/05/2014 19:40

I have never heard of such a thing either, if she was unorganised enough to not bring her own she should of asked or sent her mum out for some, come on we have all had to toilet paper the knickers at one point I'm sure, big deal!

SolidGoldBrass · 29/05/2014 19:40

I'm just sorry for the teen who has been so thoroughly humiliated by her mother. She may have been surprised by her period (teens are sometimes hugely irregular), dealt with it by using loo roll as everyone has had to do at some point and so fucking what? and now her mum's been telling people that she got her period and messed her knickers and she must feel absolutely awful...

FidelineandFumblin · 29/05/2014 19:40

But I don't have a cupboard in my downstairs/guest loo. Should I put one in and stock it with an assortment of sanpro? Just in case?

Well sod running upstairs every time I need to change a tampon. I'm too scatty anyway - I'd only remember once I was in the downstairs loo in a state of undress.

When I was a skint student tenant and couldn't afford cabinets and wasn't allowed to attach them I had a wooden box on the floor of the downstairs loo I think.

eddielizzard · 29/05/2014 19:41

i've been caught out once or twice over the years and i've just stuffed a wadge of loo paper in my pants. it has never occurred to me to look through the cupboards for sanpro. i would consider that an invasion of privacy tbh.

eddielizzard · 29/05/2014 19:42

i doubt the dd knows her mother has texted.

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