{This story deals with women's bodily functions—all three. If this offends you, please read no further. All characters are over 18.]
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Phyllis Fenton was in the midst of her usual turmoil at her office, with phones ringing and everyone seeking her assistance on what seemed to be every pending order in the office. She was the key person who kept things moving and was able to make spot decisions that would move orders along.
She grimaced because she realized that the maxipad she had been wearing for this heavy second day of her monthly period had somehow slipped from its position so that she was likely flowing right into her panties. If she did not head off to the ladies' room pronto, she would have a real accident, and everyone would witness her complete embarrassment when her period showed through her gray slacks.
Phyllis was in her late 40s and she had never felt comfortable wearing a tampon. She persisted in using pads, especially the maxis that were necessary for the heavier days of her flow. She worked hard at her job, but she still managed to keep up her appearance through regular time spent at the gym.
Her displaying strong confidence kept others in the office from ever becoming close enough to her to venture any advice. Phyllis did not spurn the proposals others made, but she would react strongly to anything she felt was ill-conceived. This attitude did result in colleagues refraining from making even suggestions in her presence.
So now there was no way she could depend on anyone else to let her know if her situation was becoming in any way evident. As she looked around the office complex, her good friend Barbara stepped close to her from her adjoining desk.
"Phyllis," Barbara said in a quiet voice that no one else would hear, "you need to go to the ladies' room right now." She knew that Phyllis would not take kindly to this warning but felt compelled to make it to protect her friend from extreme embarrassment if her parlous situation became worse.
Phyllis turned to look at Barbara and, in a small quiet manner Barbara had rarely, if ever, emanate from her friend, asked plaintively, "You mean it's leaking, and it shows?"
Barbara was surprised for a moment at the clarity of Phyllis's perception and nodded yes as she pointed the way to the ladies' room in the corridor across the room. Both women quickly picked up their pocketbooks and then Barbara led Phyllis directly to that destination with neither looking away from the straight pathway.
When they reached the ladies, Barbara took the precaution of locking the door behind her. Better, she thought, that people should be suspicious of what they were doing than having someone come in while she was helping Phyllis put herself together.
Phyllis rushed into a stall—the large one for handicapped women—and rucked up her skirt. She saw that her white cotton panties had a huge blotch of red on either side of where her maxipad had overflowed.
Barbara, also in her 40s, and sandy blonde compared to Phyllis's flaming red hair, paused for perhaps three seconds before following Phyllis into the handicapped stall. She realized that her assertive and often dominating friend needed her knowledgeable help now.
"Pull them down," Barbara said bluntly, knowing that despite her resistance to anyone else taking charge of anything, Phyllis would trust her, especially since she couldn't see what her backside looked like.
Phyllis did pull down her panties and she maneuvered them over her shoes to get them off altogether. Barbara took the soaked maxi out of the panties and deposited it in the large disposal container next to the sink in the console. Then she took some towels from the dispenser there and returned after wetting one of them just enough.
She proceeded to use them to wipe the bloody streaks from Phyllis's most intimate areas: on her bottom, her inner thighs, and in and around her hairy mons veneris. Quickly, she looked closely and was satisfied. Phyllis meanwhile had taken out a new pad from her pocketbook and Barbara, it turned out, had an extra pair of panties in her pocketbook which she took out to Phyllis's clear excitement.
"You are truly a friend in need," she gushed to Barbara in a totally uncharacteristic manner. Then she took her new maxi and very carefully attached it to the panties which looked large enough to fit her fairly well. She managed to slip them on over her shoes and pull them up her thighs where there was a scary moment when she thought they might not be large enough in the leg holes to come all the way up.
But she carefully moved them over the wider part of her thighs and with one of the paper towels, wiped her front and in between her legs one last time before she adjusted the pad in the panties so that it was snugly over her vulva.
Then she blushed, for the only time, and managed to tell Barbara, "Do excuse me, no, don't go. I have to pee." She pulled the panties with the pad down enough, so it was out of the way, leaving the new panties as so many women do, just down on her thighs a bit, out of the way but not that far down.
Barbara watched, surprised although she realized there was no reason to be, as she heard a strong stream hit the water in the toilet from Phyllis's hairy vulva.
"I guess many women our age don't shave," she said, but only to herself as she couldn't keep herself from gazing at Phyllis's pudendum as her friend pissed. The stream tailed off and Phyllis routinely took some toilet paper and wiped her crotch front to back.
Before Phyllis could pull up the new panties, Barbara had something she knew she wanted to say. "I do have a suggestion that I imagine you won't like, Phyl," Barbara now offered. Phyllis smiled and said, "I already owe you a lot, sweetie, so please tell me."
"You should now be willing to use a tampon so you can do everything possible to keep this from, happening again," Barbara just said in the blunt manner Phyllis appreciated.
"I know I should," Phyllis responded directly but not with any show of annoyance much less anger. "But I've always had trouble wearing them...getting them in." She stopped almost in mid-sentence, suddenly feeling very self-conscious about disclosing even to her closest friend that she had not worn tampons, like ever.