MORTIFIED and don't know what to do!!

[esmeralda1234]

OK, so today I was having a meeting with the brand new big boss (to make it worse, I was being told off a bit) and when sitting in the big boss offices I LEAKED on someone else's chair........ I had a bad feeling when I got up and swiftly nipped it under the desk - I'm not sure if he saw... but tomorrow when they go back in they will see!! To make it worse, my card doesn't let me in that room, so I don't know how to fix it (to be honest I doubt it will come out anyway) What should I do? Leave it and hope nobody realises it was me? Try and get it swapped? I have no idea.... but I am completely humiliated :((( PLEASE any tips would be appreciated!!!

Wearing a pad give me thrush (and scratches). I wouldn't wear one every day just in case once every few years I might embarrass myself.

Shit happens, sometimes periods too.

"Why don't you pad up?"

Both times I leaked through a super plus tampon and a night-time pad.

And in the second case I put an inco pad on my car seat too which got soaked.

I did this at school quite a few times, even with pads on.. It does feel mortifying! But all is girls were going through the same thing. I wouldn't draw any attention to it OP, no accidental spillages etc.. Just feign ignorance! They won't remember who was sat there.

I did this at work last year. Again, my own chair though so not as complicated. I don't think people would assume it's blood in the first instance, I don't think it's a man's seat they would.

Have I gone back in time?
duplicate thread.

Wow! Of all the women on Mumsnet, more than one has leaked blood on a chair and then posted about it!

It's happened to me to. On a grey plastic chair. I was wearing a black skirt so you couldn't see but left a little puddle....OP I say leave it.

Oh god do you remember back in the day on MN when you always got a 'this has been covered before have you searched threads' response? This is a really odd thread to troll hunt on.

Have done this several times. The worst occasion was about 12 years ago so memory a bit hazy. I'd pulled up a random chair to a colleague's desk so she could explain something. I felt I'd leaked and when I stood up there was a small stain. I recall the chair being a lightish colour but it didn't look particularly like blood, could've been coffee or ink. Presume it would've been even less so once it dried. Anyway, I quickly flung the chair under the nearest desk so if and when it was discovered I doubt it could've been traced back to me. I doubt your boss will remember who last sat in that chair and even if he did, it could've been there before. Was it much?

Incidentally, happened again a couple of weeks ago. Was wearing black trousers and was padded up. Was my own chair which was black leather so no stain to be seen thankfully!

This happened to me just last week. Leaked through a super plus tampon and an always ultra long with wings night time pad. Luckily I was on a black office chair (most are pale red) and my white-spotted dress had ruched up at the back, so you could only see a damp patch on my black leggings. I was still embarrassed tho. If I'd left a visible mark anywhere, I would almost definitely have posted on here!

If an old thread had been revived by the OP to add to it with her own situation then there would have been lots of cries of "zombie thread".

Wow. So are all the parent and child parking threads just the same troll?

Don't worry about it, just erase it from your mind! There's nothing you can do about it, it was an accident and these things happen (quite often), and it's too late to address it now. Have some wine or chocolate or something and forget about it.

It's extremely common - more common in my life than some of the other topics that come up time & again unquestioned!

I have never been accosted by a stranger for parking in a P&C space, never been asked to move from a pre-selected seat on a plane, never witnessed a person reserving a place in a supermarket queue before the shopping was finished and I've never been to Center Parcs.

I have leaked on to a chair at work though and I agree it is mortifying at the time. If it were me, I think I'd try to get in a bit early tomorrow & assess the damage in private, befriending a cleaner to help possibly.

Poor you and .

You poor love. It happened to me on a bus when I was 18 and used to flood plus in those days towels were shite and I couldn't use tampons. I didn't flood a bit, it was a full on massacre, all over the seat. It was summer and I was wearing jeans and crop top. No way of hiding it. Had to leg it home from the bus. Too upset to cry.

43 now and found flooding returned in my late 30s. Got the merina now and I effing love never having a period...ever!!

I flooded on a pub chair in a family friend's pub as a young girl. We all noticed it when I stood up. It.was.awkward. Bless the others there, no-one said anything.
I flooded at work once too. I've never had a super plus plus tampon let me down before, until the one time that it did. I now have full "emergency bag" of pads, pants and tights at work which came in handy soon after when I slipped on ice, cut my knee and wet myself in shock
OP get in early and find a way in. Salt and wate will remove blood, but tbh I'd get the chair out of there and into a skip hidden away first of all

Poor OP. Don't try to fix it, tho - if it wasn't noticed you'd done it, you might be caught trying to fix it, which would be worse. Head held high - nobody but nobody is going to actually accuse you to your face, so brazen it out.

I leaked in karate class once - white suit, mainly young men in the class. cringe. After that, if there was any danger of leaking, I wore black trousers. If anyone asked me why, I'd tell them, and watch them squirm with embarrassment!

These should really be better publicised

I feel your pain OP. We have a new cleaner who started on Monday and I realised on Monday evening that I had left a used sanitary pad on the side of the bath.

UnderTheGreenwoodTree - yes! These are fantastic. I bought them for my teenage daughter, too, who was worried about flooding at school or during sports. Great too if you are travelling and worried about leaking at night in hotel/guest bed etc.