Woman At Airport Is Forced To Buy $15 Box Of Tampons, Sparks Outrage With Anonymous Note

One woman visiting the Calgary International Airport didn’t initially intend to create change when she posted about the insanely high cost of tampons at the airport… but she did.

Carlee Field was in the bathroom at the airport and came out of the stall to wash her hands when she spotted a box of opened U by Kotex tampons with an angry note.

When she read the handwritten note placed beside it, she quickly took out her phone and snapped a photo.

The woman said in a note that she bought a box of 18 tampons from an airport vendor for $15, after discovering that the 50-cent tampon vending machines in the area were all empty. But, rather than taking the pricey box with her, the woman left it behind and scribbled a note for other tampon users.

The note reads: "None of the tampon vending machines work in this area so I was forced to buy this, the note read. $15 box from Relay. Not acceptable!

Please take one if you need one."

Whoever wrote that powerful note was hailed as a hero on the Internet because as soon as Field’s photo garnered attention, the Calgary International Airport refilled the vending machines with tampons and Relay slashed the tampon price from $15 to $6.25.

An airport spokesperson said the change was made in response to the Reddit post.

"We shared it with our partners and we were pleased to see our airport community come up with a solution," Dean Paddock, the airport’s director of corporate communications, said in a statement.

"When we hear of ways we can collectively do better, we do."

Now that’s the power of social media!

Field told CTV Calgary that she was glad that she and the anonymous woman could bring awareness to this important issue affecting women.

"Fifty percent of the population needs these things and she helped make a difference that day,” she said. “Thank you. From woman to woman, you’re fantastic."