Prelude

“Will you require female sanitary products whilst with us? Why the fuck would they ask that?” I shouted it across the house at my wife. I was filling in the pre-booking form for our holiday next week.

She walked into the room, “What?”

I hated her ‘what’ when she miss-hears me and would usually pick her up on it. Pointing to the question on the screen in front of me, “Look, they want to know if you’ll be on your period”.

She leaned in and read it, simply answering me, “Tell them no.”

“Ok, but why would they ask in the first place?” It felt like a very strange question to be asking for a holiday. I’d never seen it before and it didn’t fit any of the other questions on the page.

She walked off. “Dunno, don’t worry about it. Probably something to do with how they dispose of them or something.” I hadn’t thought of that. Made sense, I marked it as no.

However another box popped up after that. It was hidden before and now I’d marked it as no it asked why and the answer was a drop down. The options given as -
No longer fertile.
On birth control.
Clear time of the month.

I knew the answer was number 3 as the other two weren’t correct. However, why’d they ask this? I nearly shouted out to her again but thought fuck it. Selected option three and moved right on.