I tried telling her I was hungry – she replied that I could have some fruit, to which I replied in disgust: “Eew!” Grandmother was by now losing patience with me.
She told me not to be rude, and I was put to sit in ‘time out’ in the living room, again accompanied by another sharp smack to my bottom.
Grandmother told me that if she caught me near the cookies one more time, I would get a proper spanking.
I’m sorry to say that during that time out, I was not thinking about my behaviour – I was only thinking about the cookies.
When my punishment was over, I pretended to play with my toys – but when grandmother went out to see how my grandfather was doing, I went into the kitchen again and this time took a cookie.