First Period Blunder

My first period was horrible! I was sitting at home on the couch and all of a sudden I got a sharp pain in my lower abs(cramps but at the time I didn't know that). So I got up and on the couch there was a huge blood stain and my pants, oh geez, I dont even want to say what my pants looked like. And the couch cusion had to be thrown out because my mom couldn't get the stains out. Well, I called my mom because I didn't know how to use a tampon (which was all we had at home at the time otherwise I would have used a pad). Well, she laughed at me and then told me how. The next time I went to her work everyone was smiling and acting funny around me and I found out that my loving mother told everyone at her work about what happened! I didn't go back for a very long time after that...