I found the secret to when you know you've reached adulthood as a woman.
Today, I went to Sam's Club to buy certain things and I looked aisle after aisle in the ginormous store, but I could not place where they kept their womanly-hygiene-disposables (or whatever the secret code word is for them). It left me no choice but to ask an employee to direct me in the right area of where they keep pads and tampons.
***Flashback to high school*** when I was so embarrassed and wanted the cashier to beep the items as fast as possible so people couldn't see that I was buying these things let alone peep the word "pad" in public. It made me wonder why it's conveyed as an embarrassing thing when we are younger.
But yeah, the worker didn't know herself, so she kind of shouted to her fellow co-worker and I just kind of stood there and watched in amazement as the words tampons, pads were being tossed around out in the open and we were all okay with it. And it was then I realized how far I've come.
Hurrah, we've reached maturity!
