One year when I was about 12 or 13, I got to my last gift and shook it expectingly. I got exited and began opening it. It turns out it was a box of tampons and a few pads! So here I am sitting in front of my whole family - Dad, and my 17-year-old brother included - my face BRIGHT red, with a lap full of "feminine products".

And to make it worse, my sister asks, "Do you know what that is?" I was sooo mortified, I said yes, thanked her, and shoved them underneath my pile. I couldn't face my brother for the rest of the night.