Well, cometh the moment, having stewed for over an hour, I asked Mum if she would carry out my request. I told her I understood what I was letting myself in for, even though, in retrospect, clearly I didn’t!
Mum turned a chair around and sat facing me. She told me: “You can walk away now and we can have a laugh about it all later. But once we agree to go ahead, I’m not going to stop until you’ve been thoroughly spanked. It’s your call.”
Looking back, it’s clear she was giving me every opportunity to walk away – but I went and put my finger in that mousetrap! I asked her if she understood why I was asking; that I wanted to say I had been spanked too, among my group of friends.
Mum was very understanding, calm and matter of fact in her manner. She said: “We’ll talk this through properly tomorrow. I love you to bits, but you’ll learn a lot from this experience and the memory will last a lifetime.”