A few weeks ago, I invented this. In my mind, I mean. I was driving and thinking, Wouldn't it be great if I could get an email reminding me when I was going to fall headlong into the PMS Pool of Irrational and Unattractive so that I wouldn't have to panic every month? Then I thought, EVERYBODY NEEDS THIS and then I start writing the business plan. It was only going to take a small bank loan to get the thing off the ground.
Then I found out that somebody else thought of it.
This happens to me a lot.
There's a HITCH though, because the Somebodys who thought of it are apparently of the non-PMS-experiencing persuasion. That is, they're a bunch of somebody's boyfriends. And they've devised their site as a sort of Weapon of Mass Self-Defense. As in, "Find out when your girlfriend's PMS-in so you'll know why she's such a hag!" and "Don't be caught off guard!" and "Dude--know you'll why she's just that way!"
Well, that's my translation.Here's their actual pitch:
I find this both highly annoying--and yes, I have Bonafide PMS as I write this and they would say that's why I find it so annoying but that is NOT why I find it annoying because if they were actually women they would know that you're never annoyed during your pre-bleed days by things that wouldn't normally completely annoy you it's just that you're actually able to SAY how annoyed you are and to FEEL more deeply than usual what you would otherwise already feel and it's not because we're hormonal that we feel these things we would feel them anyway.
Let's just say that PMS Buddy is not my buddy. . . plus I'm afraid of the junk mail I might get if I sign up.
But I need a reminder because every month I have a tiny little self-reflective breakdown about why I am the way I am. And to actually remember that this is hormonally induced would be terribly helpful.
So here it is, girls, a tutorial with the likes of Us in mind: Set Yourself Up a Personal Email PMS Reminder So You Don't Think You've Lost Your Ever Lovin Mind or That You're Always This Fat or Angry: A Tutorial.
For reals.
