Getting your period in class

Scenario:
You ask to go to the toilet during class. Teacher says you can go. You leave your stuff in the classroom and go. When you go to the toilet, you find out your period has just started. But all your stuff is in your bag in the classroom.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
Do you nip back into class to get your whole bag or just what you need, hoping that the teacher or the students doesn't ask questions and you don't bleed through your clothes before you can get a pad? Do you ask a friend to go get your stuff? Do you keep asking around until someone gives you a pad, and hope that nobody asks why you've been gone so long when you get back to lesson?

(edited 1 year ago)

Reply 1

Dunnig Kruger

You do whatever is best for YOU.
Which probably means quickly stuffing some toilet paper in your underwear (assuming it's not rubbish stuff that pretty much dissolves on contact with a drop of liquid), going back, getting all your stuff, then back to the toilet and using your preferred sanitary product.

If anyone laughs at your predicament - once - that's fine. It's fine to take humour from situation comedy moments. You should join in the laughter yourself. Then move on.

There is nothing embarrassing about your period starting. It's a sign that you're a full healthy female.

You're doing what you can to minimise annoying other people by leaving menstrual deposits here and there. That's you being a good citizen.