Secret Cycle
Not a work thing, but at 13 I once had to visit my friend’s cousin while we waited to be picked up from piano lessons. It was winter so rather than wait outside it was better to walk 10 minutes to their house.
Get inside and the cousin drags us to her bedroom and starts pulling grocery bags of something rotten out from under her bed. Bed was jam packed with these lumpy bags, which released a noxious stink as she opened them.
She proudly tells us it’s used sanitary napkins and tampons and she kept them there so her dad wouldn’t know she was menstruating and have to see them in the garbage. There had to be years’ worth. Stupid thing was, her dad was a mortician and funeral home owner.
I’m pretty sure he had seen much, much worse. To this day I wonder how long she kept those bags. Blech. Story credit: Reddit / Times-New-WHOA_man