Reddit users, what a funny story from your past?

When I was 12 years old, my grandmother went to run some errands in another town and left me home with my grandfather, who wasn’t working that day. So, he decided to educate me on Gunsmoke.

After about an hour of watching TV, my stomach started to hurt and because I had eaten a big breakfast earlier, I figured I needed to use the restroom. I excused myself from his chair, walked into the bathroom, and I pulled down my underwear to see they were covered in blood. I screamed.

Grandfather came busting in the bathroom, ready to fight someone, and asked what was wrong. I covered myself, but pointed to my bloody underwear, crying.

Now, my grandfather has three daughters, but because he worked such long hours in a balloon factory with his son, he tended to be absent for certain personal issues such as menstruation. And my grandmother never bled. So naturally, he panicked. 

He started packing an overnight bag while I was stuffing toilet paper in my crotch as he directed to me to do, still bawling my eyes out. I could hear the fear in his voice as he called my grandmother to meet us at the hospital because his best girl was bleeding bad. 

Long story short, he rushed me to the hospital, flying past cars and beeping furiously at other drivers to get out of his way. He carried me into the emergency room screaming that I needed immediate medical attention and I was screaming that I was dying, to which he thought was the case as well. We were just crying and screaming, basically.

It didn’t take long before I was seen and the doctors figured out what was wrong quite quickly, explaining to me that what was happening was natural. My doctor and the nurses outside the room had tears in their eyes from trying to maintain their composure during this. And when my grandmother arrived, my mom viciously running behind her, they lost their shit. My mother laughed so hard she had an asthma attack and had to be treated.

It’s almost been two years now since my grandfather passed of a massive heart attack and to this day, this remains one of my most favorite memories with him. It was traumatizing at the time, but it's absolutely hilarious now.

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