Emily Duprie
Growing up as a person with a menstrual cycle, it is known that you don’t flush feminine hygiene products down the toilet. Ever. There are signs in almost every public bathroom to remind us, our parents, sisters, or friends usually informed us of the information when we were first going through our changes, and honestly, it’s just common sense. Sometimes, we can be put in pretty desperate situations, but very rarely is there not a trashcan nearby to solve the problem.
One Redditor (u/Express-Swordfish582) recently came forth about an unfortunate scenario that went down during her husband’s house party for his coworkers. When a wife of one of his peers flushed a loaded pad down the toilet and caused quite the scene, a bloody mess broke out. Read the story below and let us know what you would have done!
OP asked: “AITA for calling out my husbands coworkers wife for trying to flush a maxi pad down our toilet”
She began:
I’m still pretty mad at the whole ordeal. My husband’s coworker and his wife are both mad at us, and think I humiliated her but I think her lack of common sense is what did it.
My husband and I recently hosted a cookout at our house for his coworkers, he gets along pretty well with most of them and enjoys hosting. Coworkers wife Julia goes to the hallway bathroom, comes back. I end up going after her, and notice the toilet is clogged and starting to overflow. Something large and white is stuck, I use the plunger to unclog it and lo and behold, a very large bloody maxi pad. Julia was the last person to use the bathroom, so I come out and asked her if she tried to flush a pad down the toilet.
Needless to say, Julia was the culprit.
She got embarrassed and said yes, and I told her she needed to go clean up the mess she made. There was water all over the floor, with particles of her pad and blood everywhere. I asked her if no one ever taught her not to flush a pad, we have a septic tank and they cost thousands to repair. You don’t flush pads, especially not the extra large ones. Its not like she tried to flush a panty liner or something.
Julia cried and her husband yelled at me, but who does that? Especially at someone else’s house? Husbands two female coworkers came to my defense, and pretty much said it was stupid of her to do that. Julia half ass-ed cleaning up her mess, and her and her husband quickly left. All of their coworkers think Julia shouldn’t have done that, but my husband and his coworker are having a whole feud about it.
So she asked:
AITA for calling out my husbands coworkers wife for trying to flush a maxi pad down our toilet?
OP came back and added an edit to her post to clear up some misinformation:
Edit: We have a septic tank. Septic tank repairs here can easily go for around 10,000$. Julia has a septic tank. Julia knows better. When I asked if she would flush a pad in her own home she said no. Julia said she did it because there was no trashcan in there, and she didn’t want to walk her pad to a different trashcan. The trashcan from that bathroom was outside being washed because a different coworker got vomit on it. I don’t think saving her some embarrassment would be worth paying thousands of dollars to repair. Also, she saw that the toilet was clogged and decided to walk off and leave it for someone else.
The women of Reddit agreed that OP was not in the wrong for being upset about what happened, and that all women everywhere are fully aware of what to do and not do with their menstrual products.
