Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and proceeded to the checkout counter. The man at the counter asked the older boy, “Son, how old are you?”
“Eight,” the boy replied.
The man continued, “Do you know what these are used for?”
The boy replied, “Not exactly, but they aren’t for me. They’re for him. He’s my brother. He’s four. We saw on TV that if you use these you would be able to swim and ride a bike. Right now, he can’t do either one.”
That reminds me of a conversation I had with Adlani’s friend’s mom, a 5th grade health teacher. She was telling me about the questions her students have asked her (which, by the way, reaffirmed my opinion that we should never see the health teacher on the list of budget cuts again). During the segment on menstruation, one of the boys asked, “Are you sure it’s blood that comes out?” When the teacher assured him that it is indeed blood, he asked, “Are you sure it’s not blue juice?” Think about it…every commercial for sanitary napkins and tampons shows blue juice. Why is that? Something to think about.
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