For the girls, what was your experience with your first period and what happened?

I was eleven, jumping double-dutch in front of the house. Came in to use bathroom. Saw it. Told my mother. Cleaned up. She sent me to the store to get more pads.

She had schooled me on all this stuff by the time I was nine, so it didn’t scare me, but I was PISSED!!! Who needs that crap in their life at eleven.