To ask my neighbour for a pad?!

[thefoggiest]

So my nearest shop is a 20 min walk away, and it's raining (light but streaming if you see what I mean). I'm due to get my period either tonight or tomorrow morning but am totally out of sanpro.
I know my neighbour "sort of": I gave away a perfume via my local FB group, and she collected it. We also speak pretty much daily on Messenger about a guy who is suspected of poisoning cats in our area (we are both crazy cat ladies).

I really cant be bothered to walk to the shop but equally does this make me incredibly lazy/is it inappropriate to ask her for one or two pads?

If I'm going to the shop I need to leave within the hour!

YABU = stop being lazy and go to the shop
YANBU = ask the neighbour thats what they're for

I think you are a man because only a man would ask that. You're the ones who get over-excited about menstruation and sanitary protection.

Either get your brolly out or order it on Amazon prime.

I'm getting the same vibe.

A whole 20 minutes.

I'm another one who doesn't have a period any more. This "women asking each other for pads" is not a thing. Women are more organised than that.

Walk to the bloody shop.

This "women asking each other for pads" is not a thing

Exactly.

Ah ok. Bloke

This "women asking each other for pads" is not a thing.

Ditto pillow fights at adult "sleep overs", crying at the drop of a hat or exhibitionist behaviour in changing rooms. Men have some funny ideas about women.

Maybe not in your world but I've been asked if I could lend people some a number of times.

I would quite happily let my neighbour have some tampons if it saved her a 40 minute (round trip) walk in the pissing rain.

And no, not all women are "more organised than that"

I would rather my neighbour asked me than go to the shops in the rain. Plus you have given her that perfume and maybe she'll be happy to pay you back in a way.

So any thread at all now on periods on MN "must be a man"? 🙄 Please get a grip. Hands up, I AM a lazy bitch however in my defence I dont have an umbrella and it was raining. Personally I wouldnt think twice about lending someone sanpro (yes that's right, SANPRO! God forbid!). Equally though I realise it wasnt an emergency and it could be awkward to ask. In the end I got really lucky! I started walking and about half way there it started really pissing it down. A car pulled up in front of me blocking the pavement, I was just about to go on an internal rant when I saw it was a woman who lives a few houses down who was going to the shop and offering me a lift 🙏😊
PS Yes I realise I should be better organised
PPS Yes I know I also need to get an umbrella

A woman that has neither sanpro nor a brolly? 🤔

Are you seriously telling me you've never been caught short?! Come on!

Go to the shop. Or get a co op Deliveroo

Nope.
I think I have a level of anxiety about such things, and always stock up on everything! Toothpaste, shampoo, loo roll, coffee, Dairy Milk...oh, and I have about six umbrellas...

I have to say in all my years of menstruating, I was never 'caught short'.

I have to say that, if I had been, I would never have used the phrase 'caught short'.

No. Never. And I wouldn't say caught short for anything but an emergency wee.

So... Woman befriends neighbour woman, get chatty re: mysterious cat poisoner and then... wants to ask for "Sanpro" not because she's been caught short, but because she's too lazy to walk to the shop in the rain. You're a CF OP.

And you haven't been caught short. You said you're expecting it this evening or tomorrow - meaning you knew it was coming so...

Yes, it does. Any woman who actually had a period would stock up before it happened or only ask in an emergency once they already started to get to the shops. 🙄

I have been ‘caught short’ and I’m rolling my eyes at all these perfect women who never forget anything or run out of something and have never had to ask a mate for help with anything ever. But the point is that you weren’t ‘caught short’, though! You didn’t get your period unexpectedly or realise too late that you were out of pads. You knew you were due to come on and you had time to go and buy pads before it happened. You just couldn’t be bothered. That’s not being caught short, it’s being caught lazy.

You’re being lazy. A 20 minute walk to the shops will be good for you.

I think a lot of people are missing the fact that you talk to this person almost on a daily basis. To me that’s not a stranger, and therefore if you need something, you should ask.
Would I feel like walking in the rain 20mins each way just before my period? Absolutely not!!
I wouldn’t personally ask my neighbours as I’ve never really had a conversation with them, but in your circumstance I would!

Imagine the horror when little 18 year old me got caught out at my Saturday job and had to ask the much older ladies if they could help me out!!

Walk to shop
However if you came on unexpected and didnt have towels as an emergency then ask.

@BatshitBanshee
Yes, I gifted her a perfume worth over £60 and she has said twice "if you ever need anything please just ask" but I'm an absolute CF.

I'm also "a man" for forgetting to buy more tampons, not having an umbrella, using the term "sanpro", and saying "caught short" instead of "had run out of SANITARY PROTECTION".
That could so easily be turned around, couldn't it? You never get caught out? Why, because you have a special lace lined "lady drawer" that's always perfectly stocked up with pads and tampons for different days to align with your flow, because that's what REAL WOMEN HAVE?
Oh you're a woman with an umbrella, because as we know, all women have umbrellas in their umbrella stands so they dont get their blow dry wet, am umbrella to go with their leather fur lined driving gloves?

Look I'm also 'gender critical' but this is ridiculous.

Anyway, thanks for those who replied kindly, admittedly I am lazy, I did walk to the shop, and had a nice stroke of luck thanks to a different neighbour. Im a good neighbour and have good neighbours too it seems.

And now.... I'm FLOUNCING!

Never asked my neighbour for a pad even when I've come on and not had any. I've made a pad from tissue and put my shoes on and gone shop.