Plays and Pads

For my theatre appreciation class we are required to go see a play, and then write a critique about it. Of course i wait until the weekend before the critique is due to go see the play!

I looked online at different plays and I picked the one that would allow me to buy the tickets online and I grabbed a friend and went to the show. The play I had picked out was, Vigils by Noah Haidle in the Kitchen Dog Theatre in Dallas.

We were running late so I grabbed my wallet keys phone through it in a bag and we ran out the door!

When we got to the theatre I remembered that I was on my period and I had not put any protection in my bag! After i realized this while kicking myself I was informed that the play would be 90 minutes long and with NO intermission! 

This means I would not be able to leave for the bathroom through the entire thing!

I quickly grab my bag and go to the restroom HOPING that there are one of those machines that has tampons in them! I rush in turn on the lights lock the door and there it is! 

Every girls shining glory when in one of these situations! That little silver box!

In high school they had them in every bathroom but they were always empty.

I quickly grab a quarter out of my purse and go to the tampon slot...

It is broken... The handle is turned somehow the completely wrong direction probably by some panicked women in trouble who freaked out and jammed it by twisting it the wrong way. 

I sit the for a second squirming and yanking on th

e handle it although with a couple CLANK CLANKS of the handle moving the right direction there was no way it was going to budge!

I reluctantly turned my head as i looked at my fate... The pads handle...

i slip my quarter in begging God to let there please be something coming out of there as long as it can help me! I twist the handle it goes smoothly and accurately and TUNK! There it was...

This box that looks like it just came out of a time machine more then just a tiny mettle box in a womens public bathroom! It was distinctly from the 80s. Something my Mom would have first started using. A picture of a woman with a mullet, pink frosted lipstick and a white suit with big black buttons, was looking down at matching pink roses. "Gards" it was labeled with Maxi-Pad written at the bottom and the top "compressed for comfort"

Wearing these felt like wearing a diaper! I happened to be wearing some particularly tight jeans that day and for a second I was scared that they wouldn't fit! After a good couple jumps they zipped up perfectly fine! I walked out slightly uncomfortable but with my head held high!

My friend and I sat down, the room was small and the audience was extremely close to the stage! the floor at the bottom of the stairs WAS the stage! They play started and it was clever and funny! Right away i heard a LOUD laugh that i recognized immediately that it was my Theatre teachers laugh! She was right upfront in the middle laughing as hard as she could! I then started to look around and saw several of my fellow procrastinating classmates! The show was great start to finish. My friend got confused during the middle of it and I can see how someone could get lost but I enjoyed it very much.

We drove home and I later went out with friends and got back home around 2 in the morning.

Just another day in my crazy life! Lots of memories are waiting to be made!

XXXX - SarahEmily