DISAPPOINTMENT
She was going to have to come
clean. She had been piling up traffic
tickets for the past year. Last week it caught up with her. Between the tickets and the late fees it had
not only taken all of her savings but had maxed out her credit card too. In addition, she had to perform community
service for the next eight weekends. One
of those weekends was when the Denver trip was scheduled. She dreaded having to tell Johnny. He would not only be disappointed about not
going but would be livid about the tickets and the community service work. He was always warning her about her careless
driving and parking habits and now this.
He worked in the municipal court system and it wasn’t like she was would
be able to hide this. She just hoped
that one of his cohorts hadn’t informed him already.
When she got home, she
straightened up the house, got dinner started and changed into one of the
outfits she knew Johnny loved. If she
could distract him maybe the consequences wouldn’t be so bad. She thought about
what Johnny had told her about The Donaldson's.
Jeff Donaldson told Johnny that when his wife misbehaved he took her
over his knee. He said it had worked
wonders for their marriage. Cleo hoped it wouldn’t come to that but she had her
doubts.
She poured herself a glass of
wine and sat down and watched the clock as the minutes ticked down until Johnny
would be home. When she finally heard
the garage door open, she got up and went to greet him. She opened the door and
immediately knew she was in big trouble.
He was frowning and told her it was no use. They would discuss it after dinner. Right now he just wanted to sit down and relax
with a drink. Dinner was a very silent
affair. When she got up to clear the
table he told her to sit back down. She
did so but didn’t say a word. He told
her he was waiting. She asked him very
coyly “waiting for what”. He told her
not to be smart she was already in a lot of trouble and there was no sense in
making it worse.
She wasn’t sure where to
start. She hemmed and hawed and finally
told him that a warrant had been issued for her arrest and she had finally
appeared in court. She told him it had
cost her the money she had saved for the trip and in addition she was sentenced
to community service for eight weekends and one of them was the weekend for the
Denver Broncos football game. He sat
there silently and when she was finished he asked her how many tickets she had
accumulated and that they were for. She
explained the majority were parking tickets but three of them were for other
infractions. He asked her to be specific
and she told him that one was for failing to make a complete stop at a
crosswalk, another was for failure to wear her seatbelt and the third was for
speeding.
Johnny was very calm as he
lectured her on her various infractions. He lectured how lucky she was that her
license hadn’t been revoked. He said
driving was a privilege and she would learn just how much of a privilege it
was. She was very contrite as he told
her she was banned from driving until her community service was completed. He asked for her keys and placed them on the
key holder in the kitchen. She asked how
she was going to manage her life between now and then.
“That is not my problem; it’s
yours to work out” he said
“But I have to go to work
everyday”
“You will just have to do what
other people do, use public transportation”.
“That’s not fair” she said. “I’ve already been punished enough, why are
you doing this”
He told her he had been warning
her about her driving habits for years.
This is not the first time a warrant had been issued for her arrest for
failure to pay tickets. He bailed her out the last time and warned her he would
not do it again.
“Furthermore, if I catch you
driving between now and then, I am going to do what Jeff Donaldson does and you
will get the spanking you so richly deserve.
I am letting you off easy. Oh, and by the way, I am still going to
Denver that weekend. You are not
reneging on my birthday present because of your negligence”
“But, I don’t have the money”
“I’ll take it out of savings and
you will repay it out of your “mad money”. “It shouldn’t be that hard because you will be
stranded for the next two months and should be able to save quite a bit of
money”. “You will also be responsible for any additional insurance premiums
that may come as a result of your recklessness”.
“Do you understand?”
“Yes, I do. I’m sorry”
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Cleo made arrangements to get to
and from work. Grocery shopping was
another matter. After her first week
trying to use public transportation to do the usual household errands, she
decided it was just too hard. She bummed
rides from friends and when she asked Johnny for help he would accommodate her
if he could. Finally, she decided she
would make him pay too. She stopped
worrying about grocery shopping until basically “the cupboard was bare”. She would eat a good lunch at work and then
just plan on a can of soup or a PB&J sandwich for dinner. After three days of this Johnny told her he
knew what she was doing and that if she didn’t shape up she would be getting
that threatened spanking and her driving privileges would be revoked for extra
time.
All went well until the Saturday
she had a hair appointment. Johnny was out of town and her friend, Gracie, was
supposed to pick her up, take her to the salon and then spend the day
shopping. Gracie called that morning and
said she was sick and wouldn’t be able to make their date. Cleo was frantic – she couldn’t miss an
appointment with Jonathon. He was booked
weeks in advance and if she cancelled she would not be able to see him until
next month.
She was sitting in the kitchen
crying when she looked up and saw the car keys.
They were calling her name.
Surely Johnny would understand, this was important to her. She got
ready, grabbed the keys and was out the door.
Johnny would never find out.
She drove to her appointment and
when she came out to get in the car, the front fender was dented on the
driver’s side. How was she going to
explain the damage when the car was supposed to be parked in the driveway? Could she get it repaired before Johnny came
home? It wasn’t a very big dent. She drove to an auto repair shop they
frequently used and begged them to see if it could be repaired
immediately. The serviceman took pity on
her when she explained that her husband would kill her because she had dented
the car. He used the special plunger
which removed dents. She breathed a sigh of relief and drove home. She made sure to park the car in the exact
same spot and placed the keys back on the key rack.
She was in the clear until the
following week when Johnny had came home early and opened the mail. There was the bill from the repair shop. At first, he was going to call them and tell
them they had made an error. Once he
reviewed the bill, however, he saw the license number of the car and the date
of the service. He remembered he had
been out of town that day so the only possible explanation was that Cleo had
used the car and something happened and she was trying to cover her tracks.
He purposely left the bill on the
kitchen table so that she would see it when she started to fix dinner. He watched her as she picked up the paper and
realized what it was. She blanched and he asked her if she would like to
explain how the car could be in service when it was supposed to have been in
their driveway. She started crying and
explained about the hair appointment and how she couldn’t miss it and then
someone had hit the car as it was parked.
He quietly listened and then went over to the utensil drawer, pulled out
a wooden spoon. He sat down in the chair
and asked her to join him over his lap.
She hesitated. He asked her
again. She dragged herself over to him
and stood looking down at his feet.
“You know what’s going to happen,
don’t you?
“Yes, she said in a voice barely
above a whisper.
“Tell me, he said
“You are going to spank me”
“Yes, and do you know why I am
going to spank you?”
“Yes” she answered.
He took her over his lap, pulled
down her jeans and began spanking her with his hand. When he felt she was sufficiently warmed up,
he removed her undies and began laying into her with the wooden spoon. In no time she was howling like a banshee
.
“Please stop” she begged. “I’m so
sorry”
I am sure you are he told her but
this has been long overdue and continued spanking her bottom. When he felt she had enough, he stopped and
held her over his lap a few moments, rubbing her back and trying to quiet her. When he finally let her up, she stood up,
pulled up her jeans and walked out of the room with as much dignity as she
could muster. When she didn’t come back
after a while he went to look for her.
She was asleep on their bed. She
looked like a little girl all curled up hugging her pillow. He could see the tear tracks on her
cheeks.
He loved her so fiercely and he
marveled that she was his. He wondered
how anyone so sweet and lovable could get herself into so much trouble. That was going to be his problem for a long
time to come. One that he gladly accepted.
