Truth or Dare

What do you do with your tampon string when you urinate?

Do you wash your hands after using the restroom facilities?

Gerta: I daintily pull my string aside so as not to urinate on it. Sometimes I forget about my feminine protection, let loose with my waste product and become irked as the string slows my urine flow. Of course, toilet paper does not effectively dry urine-soaked strings - a distasteful inconvenience. I wash my hands after using restroom facilities only if A) my own fecal matter is on my hands, B) Someone else's fecal matter is on my hands or C) there are other people in the restroom, in which case, I feign cleanliness . . . I want to add that I have never had a yeast infection. I am queen of light menstrual flow and I like to snoop around in other people's bathrooms to see what medications they use and if they have condoms.

Trixie: I have no interesting idiosyncrasies in this department: I blithely pee all over my tampon string. I generally do wash my hands, even when no one else is around. However, if "restroom facilities" include the sink, then no, I usually do not wash my hands after leaving the bathroom.

Prudence:I tend to forget about the string and have, on several occasions, "lost" it . . . At least this situation is better than forgetting about the string and shoving another tampon in. As someone who frequently forgets to bring her groceries home from the store, I have serious doubts as to the universality of this problem. Fortunately, I always wash my hands.