Tampons Aisle 5!

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Ian brought home, from work, a list that the local Girl Scouts were handing out trying to get people to make care packages to send to help out people who were victims of Katrina.(That was Friday night) So Saturday morning, Scott and I went out to pick up some of the things we needed to complete the care package....the list contained things like...2 tooth brushes, toothpaste, hairbrush, hair ties, bottled water, blankets/towel, deorderant....and....Feminine products(Tampons)....that's what the list said. So me, not thinking, I hand the list to Scott and he wanted to check things off as we got them. So we get down the list and....
"Ok, deoderant, got it. What's next Scott?"
"Fem...Feminine.....Feminine products...Oh, Tampons, we need tampons."
Now I'm in total emabarrasment as my 10 year old step son is screaming "we need tampons" in the middle of walmart....we get to the great wall of feminine products, as it is in walmart, and Scott begings again..." Ok now...tampons, tampons" as he's browsing the wall. "Hmmmm, which ones????OH! Tampax! that's it!" He said with such enthusiasm.LOL "Are those tampons?"
Me, "Yes Scott that's it, what's next?" as I run from the Tampon wall with women, including a walmart employee, all staring at us...."What's next!?"
Now I don't know about you but I'm thinking that if I were a 10 year old boy i would not even go near tampons, let alone be happy that I found them...LOL, what a kid!
Here's the awkward position as the step-mom. I'm waiting for him to say, "what's a tampon?"
"Well, it's a feminine product."
"What's a feminine product?"
"Something for women."
"Well what do they use it for?"
"uhhhh, well...uhhh, ask your mother..."
That line, by the way, never works with Scott. So what would you tell a 10 year old boy? He never asked, so maybe he already knows. I mean, he does live with his single mom, it must have come up, right? Plus, he's already had the health class, where they talk about puberty and everything. Here I am, stressed out, and he probably already knows all about it!

Kari daydreamed @ 2:32 PM
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