Saturday, January 3, 2026

Crack That Crop

Dear Aunt Kay;

Oh, I think I'm in for it tonight. We've had company for a while here and she only had a chance to try her new riding crop once before they showed up and I think my behavior has been pretty bad, so I'm guessing it's going to get a workout tonight. She was just working it lightly last time and it had a rather pleasant spat that didn't even make me jump but I've got a feeling that if she really cranked on it, I'd be jumping. "Men!" she was saying this last time in a tone that spoke volumes. Got me thinking that yes, we are perhaps some exasperating creatures-like I don't do housework, I'm loud and prone to macho swaggering, and I have a host of other habits I know she finds annoying. Ah well, get to pay for it all tonight and love every minute of it. Weird-and if my buddies ever found out ... well they never will so that's the end of that. If all women were to justly punish their men for loutish behavior and the like they wouldn't need chairs for men I suppose, but guys without a disciplinary wife don't know what they are missing! People are always saying what sane and balanced people we both are and I attribute a lot of it to these periodic and dramatic reversals of the traditional roles. I believe it tends to even things out.

Love; DJ