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To wonder where the fudge my pantyliner is!?

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Livvylau · 19/08/2023 06:59

Throwaway as it's embarrassing.

DH and I are staying at my parents for the past month while our house is having some work done. Last night I went to sleep wearing a pantyliner (it was a bit loose but I rearranged so I thought it sat better). Woke up this morning, fed DC, gave DC to DH to change nappy and went to the loo to discover my pantyliner was no longer there.

I didn't mention anything to DH but had a peek in the bed to see if it fell off in the bed, couldn't see it. Looked around the floor of the bed, not there.
Retraced my steps to the loo, not anywhere there.
I did sit in the living room while DH changed DC's nappy so I had a look there too, but it isn't there.

Where on earth is it!?

Also, highly likely it's just me that wears liners in this house. Do post-menopausal women need liners!? It's going to be so mortifying when it's found. It's obvious it's mine and also just plain disgusting 😭😭😭

OP posts:
WestendVBroadway · 19/08/2023 10:47

cushioncovers · 19/08/2023 07:56

Oh op I feel your embarrassment. I had one fall out of my trouser leg at work as I walked out of the cubicle not so long ago i also couldn't find it and hoped it had gone down the toilet but alas no there it was all crumpled up slightly stained on the floor for two of my colleagues to see.

Years ago when I was about 15 I was walking home and felt 'something starting' down below. I went into some public toilets, and as I had no pads with me I had to use layers of loo paper in my pants. When I got home I went straight to the bathroom, and the loo roll had and gone, and I my pants were bloody. I was mortified as somewhere on my journey home a wad of bloodied paper had obviously fallen out of my knickers . I pity the poor person who stumbled on it, but hope to God nobody actually saw me as it fell.

LightSpeeds · 19/08/2023 10:49

ImDoingThisNow · 19/08/2023 07:17

Stick on the back of a jumper? Be careful when you casually throw something on today 😬

😂

Moveoverdarlin · 19/08/2023 10:50

A sinking feeling?? Jesus lighten up. I could understand your predicament if you were staying at a hot new man’s house for the first time, but it’s just your parents. Time Mummy and Daddy learnt that after women have babies, all sorts of gunk needs to be mopped up for a while.

Zanatdy · 19/08/2023 10:50

summersun29 · 19/08/2023 10:12

Sorry OP but this is hilarious! Made me smile.

If it makes you feel better, I have a pantyliner related horror story of my own.

I was staying with my then boyfriend (we both lived with parents at the time) and I was on my period. I don't know what possessed me, and I've never done this in my life, but I was embarrassed about disposing of the pad so flushed it down the loo. I'm guessing because maybe there was no bathroom bin, God knows why I didn't just wrap it up and take it with me! Anyway, as you can imagine, it blocked the loo and they spent hours trying to fix it and figure out what was going on. Thankfully, they never found out but I felt soooo bad!

I ended up marrying my boyfriend so they're now my PILs, have never admitted it!

I always flushed my pads as a teen / young adult as my mum advised me to! Probably why they’ve had plumbing problems for years! Haha. I bought a small bathroom bin for my DD to use

TinkerbellefromYorkshire · 19/08/2023 10:57

Of course it's a pantyliner.. says so on the box .. I'm in the UK.
What on earth do you call them?

LakieLady · 19/08/2023 11:04

Poivresel · 19/08/2023 10:22

Hate to tell up you OP but menopause means I wear a pad sometimes because the pile I got from having 2 babies 30 years ago occasionally decides to bleed with no warning and usually when I’m wearing white!

Does praying to St Anthony work for finding used pantyliners?

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You need St Panthony for those.

SirVixofVixHall · 19/08/2023 11:08

OP period pants are the way forward…
But anyway back to the liner -They don’t flush easily, so the loo seems less likely ? Possible though. The stickiness means it could have migrated while stuck to you or your DH, or be stuck somewhere hard to see in the bed.

airforsharon · 19/08/2023 11:18

TerfTalking · 19/08/2023 08:34

I hate to tell you this OP and is quite grim but something similar happened to me when staying with friends. DH pointed out their dog had it in his mouth and was shredding it in a corner. Thank god our friends didn’t see it….. I hope.

I snorted so loudly at that i startled MY dog 😄
Thanks for sharing that, i needed a laugh

OriginalBin · 19/08/2023 11:21

LakieLady · 19/08/2023 11:04

You need St Panthony for those.

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Well, if he doesn’t exist, he should…

OP, it’s obvious. You clearly ate it in your sleep.

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 19/08/2023 11:27

Sympathies, OP. Hope you work it out.

Incidentally, what's with the 'Oh how strange that you used that word - are you from the U.S.?' comment, when it's completely irrelevant (and an incorrect assumption, as it is on many threads)? Would your response to the OP's issue be any different if she were American?

Angie147836 · 19/08/2023 11:30

Is this a joke? You'll look for it and if you can't find it, it's probably got thrown away or flushed. The worst that can possibly happen is that one of your parents will find it.... but they birthed you and love you. I'm sure they'll know you didn't leave it there on purpose!

NamedChangedForThisss · 19/08/2023 11:38

This thread has baffled me for all the wrong reasons!

A full grown woman not actually knowing what a panty liner was! (FYI to that poster - panty liners are super thing and don't have wings).

Learning there are actually people who flush pads and liners down the toilet!?! Confused

My commiserations to you OP. I use panty liners all the time as extra security in case my tampon leaks and on the last few days of my period for spotting. Had one go missing one morning as well. Turns out it was stuck to the lower outside part of the toilet bowl!

I usually wear the carefree panty liners that have super thin sticky edges near the ends and can be wrapped around my thongs, so there's normally no chance of them disappearing. I usually struggle to take them off tbh

MamTDM · 19/08/2023 11:41

If it's any consolation, I once lost a full Mooncup from, shall we say, in situ. Never found it. One of life's great mysteries.

MonumentalLentil · 19/08/2023 11:44

MereDintofPandiculation · 19/08/2023 10:45

It's not thick enough to be a pad.

And yes, panties. Knickers is a recent word.

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Knickers is not a recent word in the UK, it was first used in the late 19th century and was derived from knickerbockers.
Panties is more recent in the UK but widely used in the US.

MonumentalLentil · 19/08/2023 11:48

NamedChangedForThisss · 19/08/2023 11:38

This thread has baffled me for all the wrong reasons!

A full grown woman not actually knowing what a panty liner was! (FYI to that poster - panty liners are super thing and don't have wings).

Learning there are actually people who flush pads and liners down the toilet!?! Confused

My commiserations to you OP. I use panty liners all the time as extra security in case my tampon leaks and on the last few days of my period for spotting. Had one go missing one morning as well. Turns out it was stuck to the lower outside part of the toilet bowl!

I usually wear the carefree panty liners that have super thin sticky edges near the ends and can be wrapped around my thongs, so there's normally no chance of them disappearing. I usually struggle to take them off tbh

May not be a full grown woman though, for at least a couple of reasons, maybe more.

twoandcooplease · 19/08/2023 11:52

CeciNestPasUnPipi · 19/08/2023 08:34

Not in my shoe
Not in my crack
Not in the laundry
Not up my back

Wherever it is, it is having some fun
Stuck to some surface and not on my bum

😂😂😂😂

pinkyredrose · 19/08/2023 12:01

MamTDM · 19/08/2023 11:41

If it's any consolation, I once lost a full Mooncup from, shall we say, in situ. Never found it. One of life's great mysteries.

Maybe it liked it's den so much that it worked it's way to the top so that it could stay there?

Lenor · 19/08/2023 12:27

No idea but similar has happened to me. I went to a friend’s house and had just been to the toilet before I left and panty liner was firmly in place. Came back from a friends 3-4 hours later, used the bathroom at my home and the panty liner was gone. This was years ago but it still makes me squirm now. I didn’t use the toilet at my friend’s house so no idea how it would have come out, but it must have done!

HoppingPavlova · 19/08/2023 12:43

I think hoping it fell into the loo and was flushed is pretty bad. That can block the pipes and is probably a lot more embarrassing if it were to cause an issue and a plumber flush it out and present it to your parents. We had this happen twice with houses on just moving in. One was a pad, the other was a small plastic cage thing you hook onto the toilet bowl with smelly stuff that was somehow flushed. Both times the plumber tried to give a lecture which I rolled my eyes at given we had just moved in and the previous people obviously limped along with plumbing issue knowing they were moving out.

I wouldn’t bat an eyelid if you lost a pantyliner in my house and I had to bin it. I’d actually have a chortle. However, by fuck I’d be angry if it turned up being dangled by a plumber.

IOweMySanityToBasilParsley · 19/08/2023 12:55

Have you found it yet @Livvylau I'm way too invested in this 🧐

Mybusyday · 19/08/2023 13:10

Im guessing it has popped out of your clothing somehow and your DM has discreetly disposed of it - this happened to me once many years ago and I’m still mortified by it!

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Livvylau · 19/08/2023 14:03

IOweMySanityToBasilParsley · 19/08/2023 12:55

Have you found it yet @Livvylau I'm way too invested in this 🧐

I haven't found it. DH has been keeping an eye out too. Total mystery. It probably did get flushed down the loo but I guess I'll never know.

OP posts:
DigbyTheDigger · 19/08/2023 14:23

Have you definitely looked closely at your baby?

To wonder where the fudge my pantyliner is!?
Oblomov23 · 19/08/2023 14:26

I lost one a few months ago. Took washing out of washing machine post wash, and it was all covered in bits, so had to re-wash. I thus then knew where the offending missing pad had gone!

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