We've all been there - caught red-cheeked when you start your period miles from the nearest loo, or when your tampons spray out of your handbag all over the canteen floor.
You gotta laugh! So here are some of our favourite silly stories - and if you'd like to share your own mishaps, we'd love to hear from you too - just Drop Us A Line!
Festival fright
If there's one place you don't want to get caught short it's a music festival. Believe me, I've been there and getting stuck in a muddy field with ten thousand hippies standing between me and the nearest chemist isn't my idea of fun. So stock up on tampons before you go and not only will you save your blushes, but they also double up as handy ear plugs if you get stuck by the loudspeaker in the dance tent!
Love your granny pants
Take one slight miscalculation with my dates and add one very gorgeous set of designer underwear. Can you see where this is going? All I'll say is that next time I decide to spend a small fortune on something the size of a frilly postage stamp, I'll make sure that I know exactly when my period's due! Looks like it's granny pants all the way for me - or at least until my next pay packet arrives!
Something's a foot
When I was a little girl all the sanitary ads seemed to be full of women running around playing sports in complete freedom, so perhaps understandably I ended up believing that sanitary towels were padding you put in your shoes to make walking more comfortable. When my mum finally discovered me and my sister running about with pads stuck to our feet she decided it was time to enlighten us. But mindful of the fact that this was the same women who had try to sell us a line about Father Christmas and the Easter Bunny, naturally we assumed she was lying through her teeth.
Tampon trauma
When I was sixteen, I was so determined not to let my period stop me taking centre stage in a big gymnastics competition that I used a tampon for the very first time. So there I was, limbering up to do my floor exercise when my rather handsome young coach - for whom I had been secretly harbouring a crush - informed me that I had a thread hanging from my leotard. When I finally realised what he was talking about, I don't know who was more embarrassed, him or me!
Hitting the language barrier
When me and my friend ran out of tampons whilst travelling in Greece we realised we had to take matters into our own hands and brave the nearest shop. After failing to make ourselves understood with our dodgy Greek pronunciation, we ended up resorting to mime. Unfortunately I think the shopkeeper got the wrong end of the stick. He bundled us out of his shop and shouted at us all down the street. Next time I think I'll just take a pen and paper!