well kids, today i am going to go way back into the past, and just so you know, i am warning you this deals with matters of a feminine nature...so...go big or go home (i just like saying that!!)....when i was a young lass, here in my little corner of the world, when a girl entered into the 5th grade, something dark and mysterious happened...first off, all the girls in the class got a permission slip to take home and get signed...a parent would sign it and tell you nothing about it; who, what where, when, why or how??....about a week after that....all the girls would be mysteriously called out of the classroom and herded into the library...the look of bewilderment was unbelievable, you would have thought we were going to be shipped off to the moon...then possibly one girl might secretly whisper that we were at "the talk"....
...a lady would come in and start off with something like, "girls, you are approaching an age that holds exciting and wonderful changes...you are about to enter the beginnings of woman hood." i knew right then and there that this 'hood' was not like 'robin hood' and it was not going to be good news...one thing i learned as a 'tomboy', was that beautiful and woman and young lady were words of extreme danger..."your body will be slowly going through many exciting changes....soon, you will start developing budding breasts, your hips will curve out to become shapely, and you will have a monthly menstrual cycle"....a what kind of cycle?...did she say motorcycle?..."menstruation, is nature's way of preparing you to one day have a baby"...what??!!!...tomboys don't have babies!!...
...things only got worse...she went on to say that once a month a 'friend' would come to visit and that we might get cramps, but we could still do everything we did before...before what??....then she pulled some kind of straps and first aid dressings out of a box...."these are called sanitary napkins, and this is a belt to hold them in place."....and then to my extreme horror, she said something about bleeding, and flow, and every 28 days!!...in my tomboy brain i was screaming "lady, shut the fuck up!!!"....
...she was ruining my life, couldn't she see that??....i did not want to join her little club and play their silly little girly games...how could i ever face my friends when we walked back into the classroom?....the return to class was almost as bewildering as leaving...the boys just looked at us like we had been given a treat and they didn't get one...hardly!!!...they never asked about where we went or why, and as far as i could tell, our mysterious little mission and it's contents had never been revealed to them...it was "the secret".....
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