[tiamat]

Depends.

CAN happen MORE often til the cycle gets established and it's often unpredictable.

Girls eventually learn to feel what is happening to their bodies and cna get a clue before it's too late. .

YOU are gallant and good to have loaned your coat!

;-)

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

Well, maybe it was gallant but I NEVER wore that coat again. After I sort of explained to my mother (Geez THAT was embarrassing!) she wore it after a good cleaning.
I saw the friend a couple years ago and she reminded me of it. Six months later I stopped by and she had a Christmas gift for me - a new Land's End reversible down parka (Highly recommended- warm, well built) in a tall size. Her husband is an inch shorter than I and made sure the sleeves would be long enough. She wanted to replace the one that was soiled. Twenty years later. Cute!