When grave offenses were committed, you might have to wait for dad to come home.
If the problem was really awful, both parents took a turn at dispensing discipline.
That only happened once to me, but it was memorable.
The spankings were not often.
However, they did occur when breaches of expected behavior took place or if the family name was put at risk by the deed committed.
The story I’m about to tell has to do with this type of mistake.
It was in the nineteen fiftys when these youthful sins took place.
It was 7th grade and during a time of life when girls were a deep mystery to us boys.
We were intensely interested in how they looked, smelled, and the changes in their bodies.