Emergency Blue Peter sanitary solutions requested! (TMI obviously)

[Morphene]

I just felt myself flooding, grabbed a tampon, shoved it in my pocket and shuffled down to the loo.

Having gotten the first part of the exchange done, I have pulled the tampon out of my pocket only to discover it is an Goodies Banana and Date Fruit bar. (other brands available).

I am a heavy bleeder and a long long way from my office.....

Any suggestions?

Why has it made you buy new socks? Why not extra tampons?

How about sticking some sanitary pads under your new socks for added cushion, then they really will be useful 🤔

Design something that transforms hate. We'll all buy it.

All sorted now and happily I am wearing boots and jeans, so I was spared the indignity of walking into the meeting 5 mins late, very obviously wearing only one sock.

My Gran always totted out the 'wear clean knickers in case you get hit by a bus mantra, put was strangely silent on the topic of wearing clean socks in case you mistake a fruit bar for a tampon.

lots of loo paper

Or perhaps someone could market socks with a sturdy cord running through them, so you could roll one up and use as an emergency tampon, without fear of "losing" it. #versatile

notsure "Stop to talk to noone" made me lol. Very good advice, though not always that easy to follow.

liz70 make it a bamboo sock and its probably naturally antibacterial as a bonus!

For the love of genitalia, I cannot believe anywhere is still using that brown shiny loo roll. We had it at primary school some considerable years ago and the only function it served was to channel any excess wee along its non-absorbent creases and onto your hand as you wiped. What's it FOR?

Glad you are sorted OP.

I'd buy it manu

rumble its not the absolutely horrid brown shiny paper, it was the hand towels that were brown. It is the bastard child of that shiny brown paper with some sort of puffy patterned stuff. Honestly, its monstrous. I am pretty sure this stuff only exists in work places that have essentially no women in them.

"make it a bamboo sock"

Or organic hemp for extra crunchiness. Literally.

I wish to register my disappointment that you did not first stuff the sock with paper towels then sew it up with a needle fashioned from an old washing up bottle and thread from your own hair. It would have been instagram-worthy.

"something that transforms hate."

Nobel Peace Prize to Manu. World in Harmony.

hmmm I could have used the plastic 5 pound note as a waterproof liner too....although I would then have felt weird about spending it.

I feel conflicted about eating the fruit bar even though it has done nothing more controversial than be in my pocket pretending to be a tampon.

Still okay to feed to the kids right?

On further reflection...
Is there a small child somewhere having the WORST lunch experience ever???
(Is there REALLY a tampon in your bag OP, or did the whole fruit bar / tampon mistake happen earlier in the day and has only just come to light???)

(STILL a bit eurgh at taking a phone to the loo!!!)

liz

Maybe eat it yourself op? It's probably an adult fruit bar now.

It's a fruit bar that identifies as a tampon. Y'all should respect transproductism.

Having spent many years in male dominated departments of companies with unpredictable toilet facilities and having always been a heavy, erratic bleeder I got into the practice of keeping a couple of tampons in my bra (using in the slot designed for chicken fillets, I put them in as they come out the wash).

You would not believe the number of times I've used those emergency tampons.

Oh no the fruit bar was in addition to the 10 tampons I brought with me to work to try and get through day. So no, my DD isn't searching for novel uses of a tampon as we speak.

Is it really yuck to have a phone in the loo...I mean it doesn't go in with me as a matter of principle, it is just always in my pocket and my pocket follows me into the loo?

For future, if you are the only female in the office - keep an emergency pack of pads/tampons in the toilet?

c8 (or caffeine I guess?)

I think that would just lead to me washing a lot of tampons....how do you remember to take them back out again? You only have to forget once....

Beyond it isn't actually a women's toilet, it is a disabled toilet that is the only toilet that isn't a men's toilet IYSWIM. Although this doesn't really rule your idea out.

@Morphene... it is really yuck??? Probably not, just that the thought of sitting on the loo texting etc... particularly men! For us women maybe it is just multi-tasking?
(Considering starting my first thread on this subject... although it's probably been done already...)
Relieved to hear no lunchbox incidents will happen!

Actually I guess if I had been in a cubicle rather than a disabled loo with a sink in reach when sitting on the loo, it could have been a bit yuck.....