girls have been using this one for a long time

ok i don't know all the details, but once some of my sisters were together in the car on a thanksgiving holiday and amy was stopped for speeding. she quickly warned lindsey (who was in the front seat) to look uncomfortable. lindsey was confused until amy starts to expain to the officer that her sister was on her period and needs to quickly get home. lindsey did a good job apparently and amy didn't get a ticket!

i know i could go to the bathroom whenever i needed to with a male teacher...you just had to give them that look like 'i reeeeeally need to go to the bathroom...' and they didn't want to know anything else! i'm sure every girl has used the excuse sometime....

so anyway, rachel does the same thing in genesis! jacob had left with his wives leah and rachel (sisters) and all the kids and belongings. laban catches up to them, angry that they left and also because rachel had stolen his idols. jacob says no one took the idols and he can look for them and if he finds them he can kill the person responsible. so he looks everywhere for them and doesn't find them because rachel had hidden them in her camel saddle.

gen 31:35 KJV
she said to her father, let it not displease my lord that i cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of the woman is upon me.

or as NLT translates it "i'm having my monthly period."

lol...well, it saved her life. she later dies giving birth to her second son benjamin...