Almost A Real Life Horror Movie!

It was 1986 and I was in sixth grade. Much to my chagrin, I began to get hair on my legs that year. Most of the time knee socks took care of the “problem,” as we wore uniforms. One day all of the girls were rolling down their socks and I rolled mine down, one of my friends exclaimed, “OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THAT HAIR!” I wanted to die. So, that night when I got home, I snuck into my mom’s bathroom and swiped her razor. Armed with nothing but a dull razor and a sense of desperation, I started the job. Unfortunately, the only result was a pair of hacked up, semi-smooth legs. That night, my legs bled all over my bed. The next morning, I got the “talk” as my mom had seen the bloody sheets. In order to hide my crime, I pretended that I had gotten my period. The next week, a girl saw the pads in my closet and told everyone at school. Despite my protestations and my story of the hacked-up legs, no one believed me. Needless to say, when I actually DID get my period several months later, I had no one to tell. I couldn’t tell my mom for fear that she would be angry and I couldn’t tell my friends as they wouldn’t believe me. I ended up telling my mom when I was about 20 and she was so upset that I kept it from her. To this day, this story encapsulates all of my preteen angst.