Mrs McCready's relationship with her husband is somewhat fraught. One evening they are bickering about her punctuality. She states adamantly that she is always on time since she was beaten for being late to a first team Lacross match at school, so holding up the whole event. After she has put the phone down, the recollection of that beating flows through her mind, repeatedly. She remembers the wicked black rod that her house master used, not sparing her full chubby bottom. Time and again, it danced to those wicked strokes. From then on her punctuality has been vastly improved, or has it? (CA15...

Mrs McCready's relationship with her husband is somewhat fraught. One evening they are bickering about her punctuality. She states adamantly that she is always on time since she was beaten for being late to a first team Lacross match at school, so holding up the whole event. After she has put the phone down, the recollection of that beating flows through her mind, repeatedly. She remembers the wicked black rod that her house master used, not sparing her full chubby bottom. Time and again, it danced to those wicked strokes. From then on her punctuality has been vastly improved, or has it? (CA154)