Gentle Guide Thoughts

Since we're on the topic of tampons

...okay, I know we weren't talking about tampons...but I'm sure someone, somewhere was...so I'm just going to piggyback on that converstaion....work with me here.

People have heard me mention before that I cannot BELIEVE that there is such a thing as a scented tampon...as though our insides need to absorb a smell.  This blows me away. 

What I haven't mentioned yet (but oh I'm going there right now) is that I'm pretty much aghast at the different "volumes" of tampons that are available.  They are:

Light (thank God they don't spell it "lite")
Regular
Super
Super Plus
Ultra

Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I will admit to you that I'm a woman who doesn't notice anything on top of the refrigerator unless I know that I need something up there, and then I look.  This also translates into tampon usage -- I don't look for what I don't need.  So when my needs changed (hey ladies, times change, so do our needs)....I looked. 

I apologize right now to the woman in the aisle with me...because I was "that woman" who had to be audibly surprised at the tampons. 

I can understand Light, Regular and Super those are pretty much no-brainers.  After that, though, it seems to me that they didn't quite think the "higher volume" and "naming" part through, because the "Super Plus and Ultra" just seem like "Big, Really Big, and Woah." 

I don't think I'll ever be able to buy Super Plus....mostly because of that last part.  I think we've been conditioned to read "Plus" part and think there's a little extra magic added to it.  Like Puffs Plus (lotion! hey!)   Since I don't even like the idea of scents being all up in there, co-mingling....I certainly don't want lotion or other magic added either. 

Also, Ultra?  Knowing how big a Super tampon is...I absolutely cannot imagine how big an Ultra tampon would be.  I'm going to stop there....it hurts me.