For a girl who doesn’t have cramps and has a hard time tracking her period…my period decided to appear on the parade ground.
I was a subguard so the person who could tell me about it was a guy…he just randomly handed me his khaki jacket and I was confused as to why…and he said he was tired of wearing it and I should tie on my waist and I was like okayyyyy
Lucky for me…we were doing the whole review order thingy and we were dismissed and he came and was like “look don’t feel bad or shy but truth is you’re stained” I thanked him so much and looked for my friend who followed me back to the hostel where I went to have a bath, took his jacket to the laundry and got it washed and ironed and returned it.
That single act saved me.
So I got my period at work today with absolutely no warning and went around asking all the women in the office if anyone had anything and nobody had a single thing.
One of the guys overheard me and said he had pads in his car because he keeps them there for his girlfriend for emergencies.
And then he went out to his car and came back and handed me a pastry bag.
This man had put the pads inside a pastry bag so nobody would know what was in it. To save me the awkwardness of walking through the office visibly carrying pads. He thought about that. On his own.
And it wasn't just one, he gave me two because I had an eight hour shift and he did that math himself apparently.
I was not prepared for......