That sticky issue!

It could be that I am slightly nuts. It’s not menopausal mania.

But – like Murphy’s Law proclaims, everything that can possibly go wrong, will.

See – I bought this pack of Whispers®, the extra large pack with wings – you know, the one that conveniently goes all the way up front AND back – and you’re thinking, phew! Now I don’t have to worry about leaking and staining sideways or whatever.

But hold your breath, sisters; be very cautious when you unpack and use. You know you have to peel the strip off the back of the pad and stick it on your panty crotch. Now, what the silly dopes have done is – they’ve put the wings in front and put the sticky on top. Jeez – what you probably want to do is first stick the pad to the panty and then fix the wings around.

But psychology dictates that you remove the sticky you see first. So, yours truly removed the wings’ sticky. which means the little flaps go and get stuck just about anywhere, never to be removed again. What I do very cleverly (or so I think) is – I carefully try not to let the wing flaps stick anywhere.

I remove the sticky from the back of the pad. The next thing I know is – these little wings have gone and stuck themselves under the pad. Like they were programmed to. Impossible to extricate them unless I want to dismantle the entire pad, which I don’t.

So, now I am stuck (no pun here) with a pad that fixes itself to my panty only at the top and the bottom unless I wear a really tight panty, preventing any movement.

With the regular pads, they’ve taken the wings to the back of the pads and fixed them there with the same sticky. Go figure.

I am probably stupid. I don’t even know how to maneuver a pad. I don’t care.

And finally – sisters, ensure the wings are FIXED – somewhere – if they’re not – and face you when you pull up your panties – you’ll just experience the vulva wax. That hurts. Really hurts.