Real Life Stories - September 2014

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She had need to smack the boys fairly often though and I had sometimes witnessed this when my sister, Zoe, and I were staying with my cousins, especially probably because when we were staying the boys would be prone to show off and get rowdy in all sorts of ways. This had gone on all my life, I suppose, but one time particularly made an impression on me, which I have never forgotten.

The boys had been messing around all morning and annoying Lisa and me; racing into Lisa's room where we were doing things, pushing our stuff around, wanting us to chase them into the garden, then trying to lift up our skirts from behind to embarrass us, etc. etc. Just non-stop boys' nuisance really. But my Aunt was not in a good mood that day and finally became exceedingly fed up with all the noise. She shouted at Johnny and David (for about the fifth time) to stop being so badly behaved and told them to wait for her down in my uncle's 'office'!

I remember that this caused a sudden change of demeanor in the boys who must have realized what they had let themselves in for. To cut a long story short, several minutes later Lisa and I were peeping into the sitting room through the open door watching my Aunt put Johnny over her lap and spank him very enthusiastically with the back of one of her wooden hairbrushes. His shorts and underpants were round his ankles and he was yelling things like, "Please Mum, no! Not more! Please Mum! I'm sorry Mum!"