Okay. It was a normal night at work. Not too much happening other than the expected Father’s Day rush. For those of you that don’t know, I am in retail. Father’s Day has expected added workload. Anyhoo, I was busily working when I was called over to the children’s department. An associate found ‘something’ in the fitting room. My mind immediately ran through all of the memories of things that had been found in a fitting room on my watch. Not pretty. People can be really super disgusting. That’s like a whole other post though. Staying on topic, I figured it was probably wet clothes. People often let their kids pee in fitting rooms because they are too lazy to get to a proper restroom. So I braced myself as I asked what was found. “It’s a girl’s thing, I don’t want to tell you.” is what the embarrassed employee said. I assured her I had seen worse. I knew what she meant. Of course maintenance had gone home. So we went through the awkward and disgusting sanitary napkin removal.

Some thoughts on that. Sanitary Napkin. Why do we call them that? I mean, sure I don’t quite grasp all the mysteries and complexities of being a woman, but one look at that thing and all I saw were design flaws. They are not sanitary at all. Especially lying there, used, on the floor of the children’s fitting room. There’s no enclosure, no handles of any kind. This one didn’t even have wings!! Now I would have never touched it, handle or not, so I planned on sacrificing two metal bars. But still. You’d think with a name like that there’d be like at least one ‘sanitary’ feature..

And secondly where was the mother? I am assuming by geographical location of the, erm… incident that it was a young girl that left the surprise for us. Don’t we teach them proper handling procedures? I mean, some instruction must at least appear on the product packaging of these ‘napkins’. Do we not at least point that out to our daughters? So many issues.. 

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