Speaking of tampons

[Gothic Sponge]

When i was about 7 years old, my friend and i went into my mother’s bathroom closet, and stole all of her tampons. We had no clue what they were -- to us, they looked like little sticks of dynamite! We proceeded outside with them to play "Army." The string on a tampon was the fuse, so we pretended to light it, and then threw them at each other. This went on for a while. (It was a big box!) Up and down the street we played. Looking back now I have to laugh. The whole block was coved with tampons everywhere. My poor mother must have been humiliated. Just thought i'd share.

[m-jean03]

1. LOL! That's really funny!!! :-) (n/t)

[Book Lover]

2. Oh my lack of god, that is funny!

That belongs in someone's independent film!

[Gothic Sponge]

3. Funny you should say that

I did put it into my screenplay.. (the one i never finished) Too busy making music and recording.

[Book Lover]

4. It belongs there :-)

I can see the storyboards in my mind.... that's it, let's make that movie!

[Gothic Sponge]

5. I'll do it! Hehe!

I'd actually love to collaborate with someone. Fly to New York! ;)

[Book Lover]

6. I am so there!

We can go to my family's house on the East End and hole up, just like real screenwriters!

[Gothic Sponge]

7. LOL!

I live on the east end of Long Island! Not on the forks, but close enough.

[Book Lover]

8. Ha!

I'm talking about Shelter Island. May I ask where you are?

[Gothic Sponge]

10. I'm around the Port Jefferson area

Shelter Island is a nice place. I was there a few years ago. I sometimes hangout around Sag Harbor.

[murielm99]

11. I have another one you could use in your screenplay.

When my husband was a kid, he found a stack of love letters his father had written to his mother while he was away at war.

He decided to play mailman, and delivered them to houses all over the neighborhood. When of the neighbors returned a letter, apparently he had read it, because he used a term of endearment that my father in law had used in the letter.

Eventually, she got them all back, after some embarrassment.

[Gothic Sponge]

12. LOL!

Talk about embarrassing! I've got a million horror stories from when i was a kid. I'm surprised my parents didn't kill me. ;)

[pink-o]

9. You gotta love it!

One time we fashioned a hash pipe out of a tampon applicator and some tin foil....who says they're not multi-use items???

[Gothic Sponge]

13. Talk about recycling!

[flamingyouth]

14. That's hilarious

Reminds me a bit of my dad's first job. When he was 15 he worked at a neighborhood grocery store, where he was assigned the task of wrapping up boxes of Kotex in plain brown paper all afternoon. He had no idea what Kotex was and thought it was for blotting up leaks under the sink! :D

[Bertha Venation]

15. Speaking of tampons . . . haven't bought any since 1998!

You know you're in trouble when your GYN is examining you, and suddenly her head pops up and she says, "Uh . . . you've said you don't want kids, right?"

In the hospital, I got flowers from an ex-girlfriend. The card read "You lucky bitch!"

[Gothic Sponge]

16. Wow!

I didn't know tampons could be dangerous.

[Bertha Venation]

24. heh, no . . .

the tampons didn't do the damage. The pill did -- the pill my ex-girlfriend talked me into taking because my unpredictable periods were messing up our, uh, private time.

[TX-RAT]

22. My wife quit using them after the Toxic Shock reports.

[ChickMagic]

17. Landover Baptist Church

They had a hilarious speaker at a conference I attended and he called tampons "Satan's little cotton fingers."

[The empressof all]

18. OK I can top that

I once caught my daughter (around age 4) dipping them in the toilet then in glitter to make Christmas ornaments!

When I was very young I tried to set the table with Sanitary Napkins after my mother told me that they were for special occasions.

[AngryAmish]

19. My sister told me that mom did not want her to use tampons

"They are for married women, dear."

[Magrittes Pipe]

20. Oh. I thought you were talking about residents of Tampa.

:shrug:

[johnnie]

21. I have one

Our band was playing a gig at a college one night (we were still in high school '81' or so) and during setup time I went to the women's john and grabbed two handful of those things and put them behind on of the amps. In the middle of one of the tunes I grab all these tampons and threw them up in the air out to the crowd. Everyone was grabbing for them thinking they were free give-aways or whatever. It was pretty funny to watch and we got a bit of talk about it for a while after.
Ummmm.....Guess you would have had to have been there...lol

[THUNDER HANDS]

23. LOL

Awesome...and greetings from another Long Islander!

:hi:

[Gothic Sponge]

27. Hey Magic Rat!

What part of the Island?

:toast:

[jukes]

25. you

WERE a scamp!
:evilgrin:

[ironflange]

26. Does this story have anything to do with your moniker?

:evilgrin:

[Gothic Sponge]

28. LOL!

No, it doesn't. My moniker is just two words i thought sounded ridiculous together, so i went with it.

[geniph]

29. They actually do make quite good fuses

or so my monkeywrenching friends used to claim, back in my misspent youth.

[Iris]

30. Tampons are my cat's favorite toy.

In my old house, he used to know how to get in the bathroom closet and fish one or two out of the box!