Tampon Nostalgia

A lady over on The Frisky admits that she was too nervous to buy her own tampons until she was 30 years old. To which I say, girl, that is out of control. But also I remember in eighth grade thinking tampon-buying was the funniest and daring my friend Alyssa to buy them. That was the whole dare: “Buy some.” She did, and it was very straightforward. A better dare was when later that year we went on a whale-watching trip and I dared my friend Jesse to ask the guide what lake we were in.