Do you remember the first time you went to buy tampons? For many adolescent girls, it can be something of a daunting experience: scuttling furtively around the aisles of your local pharmacy, your face hot and brick-red, hoping against hope that you don’t run into any of the boys from school. Why? Well, because periods are embarrassing – obviously.

From the use of euphemistic terms (“Aunt Flo”) to the blue "blood" used in advertising campaigns, a pervasive stigma still surrounds menstruation – despite the fact that it’s 2016 and women have been having periods for, you know, ever. (Just witness the furore that exploded when Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui casually announced that she’d been on her period while competing in the Rio Olympics.)

With that in mind, you’d hope that shops would want to make buying sanitary products as smooth a process as possible.

But sadly, it’s often not the case – as one 13-year-old girl discovered over the weekend.

This 13-year-old and her mum just brilliantly skewered the taboo surrounding periods