One More for the Bleed

So, a few years back a guy friend of mine (long before my husband came along) was telling me about this girl he was madly in love with (and later married, wonder of wonders...after this, I'd have rethought it on her part).

Turns out they snuck off for a weekend somewhere (I know, at 19, you shouldn't have to sneak, but they and their folks were religious, if you catch my drift), and though they didn't have sex (how adorably repressed!), I guess she got sick during the weekend (guilt, maybe?) and puked a bunch and then more or less passed out. (No drinking involved, miraculously. Religious!)

Anyway, she was on her period, turns out, and he'd, of course, heard TERRIBLE things from his mom and sisters over the years about the awful dangers of leaving in a tampon longer than 8 hours. (Hell, I've worn 'em 36 hours. They're all schmucks.)

Anyway, Toxic Shock Syndrome at the forefront of his mind, he confessed to me that, not wanting to wake her, worried about her being ill and needing rest, but being equally as worried about the horrible dangers of TSS...yup, you guessed it!...he took her tampon out FOR HER while she was unconscious.

Wonderful, caring boyfriend or psycho freak?

I leave it to you to decide, but let me tell you my opinion RIGHT HERE AND NOW (and feel free to dispute it if you disagree): PSYCHO FREAK.

Seriously, WAKE HER UP!!! Do NOT make a run for the hana and whip that puppy out on your own!!!

Can you IMAGINE being that girl, 19, religious, waking up from being ill, and finding you're stripped from the waist down with a bloody towel under your bum because your RELIGIOUS boyfriend took it upon himself to relieve you of your trusty cotton friend!?!?!!?!!?!!?!!?

DEAR GOD!!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOO WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now argue with me. I dare you. Because if I weren't religious myself, I'd be calling that MESSED UP...but using a completely different word than "messed".

Still reeling from that one a decade later. Leave it to a bad, naughty mommy not to be able to let that one go mentally. Yikes. Can I get a yikes?