As a girl, there was nothing that got me begging quicker than a whipping from Dad. It turns out that a domestic discipline whipping isn't much better...
I’d just opened the box as I heard my husband pulling up in the driveway. I tore open the Amazon delivery and pulled back the lid of the shoe box inside. My hands fumbled over the tissue paper that covered the perfect pair of Christian Louboutin heels.
With barely a second to admire the most gorgeous shoes I had ever owned, I ran upstairs with the shoe box before Tom reached the door.
I stashed them in our master bedroom closet, inside one of the suitcases that I then pushed mostly back onto a high shelf. I heard the door open, and he called out to greet me.
“Oh, hey, honey,” I replied. I came down the stairs too slowly, as if I hadn’t just spent my whole paycheck on a pair of extravagant shoes. It was so stupid. Breaking his rules, spending way way too much. I really don't know what I had been thinking, I'm not normally like that. And I was about to compound it by lying to him.
He eyed me for a moment, and somehow I felt like he could see the guilt on my face.
“How was work?” I asked, as I pulled my hair into a pony tail.
“Pretty good, thanks.” He pointed to the box on the kitchen island. “What’d you get from Amazon?”
“Oh, um, just some stuff for the house.” I said. Shoes should count as a household expense, right? :)
He crossed his arms.
“What kind of ‘stuff'?”
“You know, stuff we needed...”
I trailed off. It was then that I noticed he was holding a white slip of paper behind his back. I could just make out the corner of white paper peeking out from behind his suit jacket.
He grabbed my arm, and headed towards a kitchen chair.
“What are you doing?!”
“Missy, you know exactly what I’m doing. You need a reminder of the rules, and you need that reminder over my lap.”
He pulled me over his suit pants. I was wearing thin yoga pants, which sucked. Not that jeans would have offered much protection.
My butt was already squirming over his lap, even though he’d yet to start spanking me. His hand waved around over my posterior, and I tried to sway away and avoid the inevitable start of discipline.
“Rule one,” he said in a firm tone. “No backtalk.”
SWAT!
Even though I braced myself for it, I cried out. It felt like it was on my bare butt, and the spot radiated heat like fire.
“No Disrespect.”
SWAT!
“No lying.”
SWAT!
“No Over-Spending!”
I tensed my butt and thighs for the impending swat, but then I fearfully realized that he was pulling my pants down.
“Bring me your wooden spoon,” he said.
“Nooo, I don’t want to. I learned my lesson.”
“If you don’t get me the wooden spoon, I will use my belt.”
Yikes. That was a real conversation stopper, and you can probably see why...
I’d just opened the box as I heard my husband pulling up in the driveway. I tore open the Amazon delivery and pulled back the lid of the shoe box inside. My hands fumbled over the tissue paper that covered the perfect pair of Christian Louboutin heels.
With barely a second to admire the most gorgeous shoes I had ever owned, I ran upstairs with the shoe box before Tom reached the door.
I stashed them in our master bedroom closet, inside one of the suitcases that I then pushed mostly back onto a high shelf. I heard the door open, and he called out to greet me.
“Oh, hey, honey,” I replied. I came down the stairs too slowly, as if I hadn’t just spent my whole paycheck on a pair of extravagant shoes. It was so stupid. Breaking his rules, spending way way too much. I really don't know what I had been thinking, I'm not normally like that. And I was about to compound it by lying to him.
He eyed me for a moment, and somehow I felt like he could see the guilt on my face.
“How was work?” I asked, as I pulled my hair into a pony tail.
“Pretty good, thanks.” He pointed to the box on the kitchen island. “What’d you get from Amazon?”
“Oh, um, just some stuff for the house.” I said. Shoes should count as a household expense, right? :)
He crossed his arms.
“What kind of ‘stuff'?”
“You know, stuff we needed...”
I trailed off. It was then that I noticed he was holding a white slip of paper behind his back. I could just make out the corner of white paper peeking out from behind his suit jacket.
He grabbed my arm, and headed towards a kitchen chair.
“What are you doing?!”
“Missy, you know exactly what I’m doing. You need a reminder of the rules, and you need that reminder over my lap.”
He pulled me over his suit pants. I was wearing thin yoga pants, which sucked. Not that jeans would have offered much protection.
My butt was already squirming over his lap, even though he’d yet to start spanking me. His hand waved around over my posterior, and I tried to sway away and avoid the inevitable start of discipline.
“Rule one,” he said in a firm tone. “No backtalk.”
SWAT!
Even though I braced myself for it, I cried out. It felt like it was on my bare butt, and the spot radiated heat like fire.
“No Disrespect.”
SWAT!
“No lying.”
SWAT!
“No Over-Spending!”
I tensed my butt and thighs for the impending swat, but then I fearfully realized that he was pulling my pants down.
“Bring me your wooden spoon,” he said.
“Nooo, I don’t want to. I learned my lesson.”
“If you don’t get me the wooden spoon, I will use my belt.”
Yikes. That was a real conversation stopper, and you can probably see why...
He began fiddling with the buckle, which made me grab the long wooden spoon from the kitchen in just a blink of an eye. He took the spoon from my hand and pulled me back over his lap.
“Now,” he ran the back of the spoon over my naked butt and thighs, focusing on the bright red areas. “We were reviewing your rules. And the fourth rule is what?”
“No, over spending,” I muttered.
SWAT!
“Ow, I said no over spending!”
SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT
SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT
By this point I was crying heavily. The spoon was small which at the moment felt like the stingiest possible implement. I reached back and felt the beginning of welts, and he swatted my open hand.
“No rubbing!”
“But it stings! And why shouldn’t I buy nice shoes?” The dumb question leaped from my mouth before I could stop it. Even though my butt and upper thighs were already crimson.
Tom didn’t say anything at first. He just took me by the ear and pulled me into a corner. My mascara smeared on the wall and the stinging on my butt and thighs intensified like fruit ripening.
I was still facing the corner, hoping that the spanking was done, but knowing in the pit of my stomach that it wasn’t. Minutes passed, and then I heard the worst possible sound: The jingling of his belt buckle unclasping. My head turned toward him, hoping that I’d misheard.
“Did I tell you that you could turn around?”
“No,” I whimpered.
I felt the belt’s lick of fire on my upper left thigh, and jumped from the heat of it.
“No what?!”
“No, sir,” I corrected myself.
“Now, you have shown me that you are feeling so bratty that neither my hand, nor the wooden spoon are enough to get you under control today. Let’s see if you feel differently about a dozen with the belt.”
He took me by the ear and bent me over the sofa with a hard hand swat. Just as I started whining from that, it began.
LASH LASH LASH LASH LASH LASH LASH LASH LASH LASH LASH LASH LASH
“Please stop, I’ll do anything! I’m sorry! I shouldn’t have bought the shoes!”
As my punishment continued, every lick stung even more than the last. I screamed in agony each time the belt whipped my sensitive skin, and begged him incoherently to stop.
By the time I’d counted out twelve, I could barely stand because of crying so hard. My butt and thighs were absolutely on fire. But I didn’t dare to even so much as turn my head back to see if he was finished.
“Did you learn your lesson?”
“Yes, sir, I’m sorry.”
I fought the urge to squirm and rub. It took every ounce of my remaining energy to stand somewhat still in the corner.
“I think we need to make sure you’ve learned your lesson. Half an hour of corner time. And if I come in and see you doing anything besides standing still with your nose touching that corner, you’ll get at least another dozen with the belt.”
I heard him drop the belt on the ground beside me and felt so embarrassed as I stood in the corner for half an hour, desperate to rub my welts.
But when he eventually came back in, he handed me a fresh pair of pajamas, and told me he loved me. He hugged me, wiped my mascara-streaked face, and told me he was so glad that I had really learned my lesson.
Of course, I had to send the shoes back. But even if I had kept them, they would have only reminded me of getting my butt so thoroughly whipped. Come to think of it, maybe telling him that would have gotten him to let me keep the shoes after all :)