I was recently sharing one of my many stories with a group of friends and realized I had completely misunderstood one of the questions a student asked. Here is the sticky:

So when I first read the question, both my teaching partner and I immediately said, "uh, tampons shoudn't shock you. If they do, something isn't right and you need to see a doctor." And that was the end of that. Later, when I was sharing the story with friends, one of them said, "Wait, I think they are talking about toxic shock syndrome." Oops, that makes much more sense...