For two days Tim has been staying at friends and failed to let anyone know. Being irresponsible comes at a price, and in this case a very high price. The cane is the best way to deal with this kind of carryings on and Tim finds out how much easier it would have been to have called and let people know where he was. A slight lad with a small butt the results of the cane are visible very quickly. The welts at the end are a perfect picture of a mistake being corrected.