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| Mandy And The Bungee Cord Incident |
Hi there ya’ll! I am Mandy’s aunt. I just love that little scamp of a niece of mine but man oh man she can be so bad! Just the other day I was caring for her and you would not believe what that child did. I have to laugh now but it sure wasn’t funny when it happened. I had gotten to Mandy’s house early that day. My sister had a lot of errands to do and I had offered to take care of Lisa and Mandy. Lisa had a play date and so it was just Mandy and I. Sounds like an easy day, huh? It wasn’t. My sister left shortly after I got there. It almost seemed like she flew out of the house. I can understand why now. The minute Mandy and I were alone she started her drama queen act. She threw herself on the floor and professed she would just die if I didn’t take her to see the new kids movie that just came out. I told her that her momma wanted us to stay in the house because she waiting on a delivery. I told me Mandy that we could play a game or draw. Mandy does not like to hear the word “no” and so she began to pout and cry and do every thing she could think of to get her way. I told her that if she wanted to act this way she could take her little tail up to her room and wait until she could control herself. She quieted down for a bit. We turned on the television and watched a few cartoons. One of them was about a girl who decided she wanted to bungee jump. Now I don’t know about you but I could never, ever do that. Mandy was paying a lot of attention to this cartoon and I should have known something was up. Being the intelligent individual I am I simply ignored it. I assumed she just liked the cartoon. I turned the television off an hour later. Mandy carried on like she was getting a lobotomy without anesthesia. I stood my ground firmly and did not put it back on. At one point she went over to the television and turned it back on. I turned it off and she had the audacity to go back to that tv and turn it back on. Now I had only been there for one hour but that child was testing my patience! I turned it off and told her if she so much as went within ten feet of that tv I would turn her over my knee and spank the daylights out of her. Mandy always did like a challenge and so she looked me square in the eye and marched her little self over to it. I caught her by the arm, gave her three solid whacks to her bottom and sent her to her room. She marched up to her room yelling that I was the most, meanest aunt in the whole world. I ignored her and just pointed my finger. She ran into her room and slammed the door. I yelled up to her to knock it off and got myself a cup of tea. After I drank my tea I went upstairs. I knocked on her door and she told me she wanted to stay in her room. I should have known something was up that child’s sleeve but I figured that just maybe she found something to do. Gosh, I was so wrong. She found something to do all right but you’ll find out about that in a bit. Mandy had been upstairs for about an hour when the delivery fellows arrived with my sister’s new refrigerator. They brought in a dolly to take out the old one. He pushed and he pulled and finally that big old monster came out of its spot. I swore I heard a few cuss words during that whole business and I didn’t blame him one little bit. After the new one was installed he had to get a hold of the plumber to install the icemaker. I figured I better go check on Mandy because she was just a little too quiet. As soon as I got to her door I heard a big crash in the kitchen. I quickly asked Mandy if she was ok and ran back down there. Our poor deliveryman had tripped over the wrappings and was sitting with a huge box over his head and his feet entangled in the cord of the refrigerator. I got him untangled and had almost gotten the box off of him when the plumber walked in. He let out the biggest laugh I have ever heard. At that very moment I heard a noise come from Mandy’s room that sounded like the boing of a huge rubber band. I yelled up to Mandy to make sure she was ok. She yelled down that she was fine and I resumed getting the deliveryman out of his predicament. Before long the plumber was working and the deliverymen were taking the old refrigerator out to their truck. They pushed and they pulled and finally the two of them got it out of the house. All of the sudden he ran back in and told me a kid was hanging upside down from her room attached to big bungee cord. I put my hands up to my head and wanted to scream. I ran outside and saw Mandy hanging upside down and acting as pleased with herself as she could. Then I did what any brilliant normal grownup would do, I yelled at her to get down immediately. Of course Mandy ignored me and laughed. I was livid with her at this point and scared as well. I knew that if Mandy lived through this I was just going to have to murder her! One of the deliverymen called the fire department. I ran up to her room to see if I could get her out of this. When I got there I saw that she had rigged up the cords to her bed. Every time Mandy “boinged” the bed moved an inch. I was really scared by now. Finally I heard the sounds of the fire truck and the police sirens. Mandy heard them too. She wasn’t one bit scared though. In fact, she was mad. She yelled that she was having fun and I was mean for messing up her fun. I told her when she was back in her room we would be having a nice long chat about “her fun”. Within minutes one of the firemen had gotten her safe and sound on the ground. I ran down and thanked them profusely. Mandy had the nerve to kick him in his shins. I grabbed her and pulled her well away from him. The poor man was rubbing his leg for all he was worth. She told him he had no right to spoil her fun. I apologized for her and took her in the house. I told her as soon as the plumber was done she and I needed to have a talk. I had her sit right by me so that she couldn’t get in any more trouble. The plumber kept watching us out of the corner of his eye. I bet he wondered if everyday was like this in this house. After he finished I gave him the check and he walked out shaking his head. I didn’t blame him. I was shaking my head too. I took Mandy up to her room and sat down on her bed. She knew she was in deep trouble. I asked her if she knew why she was in such trouble. She looked down at the ground and mumbled something. I told her to speak up. She raised her head and with all the angelic ability she had, she told me she would never do this again. I said to her I knew she was never going to do this again! She started to cry and begged me not to spank her. Without another word I pulled her over my knee and began to spank her. She kicked and she wriggled but I just held her tighter. I spanked her up and down that naughty little bottom of hers. I knew she would be one very sore little girl when I was done. Sometime during this my sister walked in and came upstairs. She saw me spanking Mandy and just knew that her daughter did something pretty darn bad. You see, I had never spanked my niece before. I had always felt that if you talked to a child you could change their behavior. I was so wrong! I concluded the spanking with a few hard whacks to her sit spot. I lifted Mandy up and hugged her. When she stopped crying I told her that she had to tell her momma why she had gotten this spanking. Mandy didn’t want to but she did. My sister was horrified that Mandy had done such a dangerous thing. I was feeling horrified for the very same reason. The only one that wasn’t feeling horrified was Mandy. Kinda figures, huh? |