To be perfectly honest, my own reaction to the Slipper was a mixture of nervousness and pleasure. I found the idea that I was going to get a slippering exciting, I worried in case it hurt but mostly I had a nice time when we got down to it.
On one occasion, I was taken into an Office for missing a detention. When questioned why I didn’t turn up, I claimed that “I forgot” and the teacher said that he had not forgotten before picking up his Slipper and asking me to follow him to the corner of the room. I remember smiling because I preferred getting the Slipper to detention anyway but also thinking “this is going to hurt.”