Most embarrassing menstrual moment (in public or behind closed doors, doesn’t matter)?

Oh dear, it’s inscribed in bold letters in my psyche, the most mortifying menstrual moment in my personal history!

I was not even THAT young, I was 18. It was a hot summer day in Buenos Aires (temperatures can easily reach 40 degrees Celsius/ 104 F over there). I was wearing a white skirt. Summer, free flowing… the kind depicted in Carefree White Girl fashion photos. Happily roaming the streets of my city.

And I got my period. Because it was summer, and I sweat a lot in summer, I didn’t realize it was my period. I thought, you know, it was just sweat on my ass. It wasn’t. I looked like a victim of Dexter’s worst shenanigans. But that, I didn’t realize until I was back home and my mother pointed it out.

Looking in retrospect, I wish some kind soul had warned me. Instead, I was totally oblivious of the fact that I could be an extra of a particularly gory episode of CSI.

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