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>Well, I really never thought of trying to count them. >But sitting down and giving it some thought, it's >probably not that difficult to figure out. After all, >I just didn't get into that much trouble as a boy. > >(Certainly not to the extent of my two immediate >Brothers, who were always fighting with each other. >And Younger-Brother got into even less trouble than >that. At least as far as I'm aware of.) > >At home, and specifically on-the-seat-of-the-pants >corrections I got probably fewer than a dozen from >birth to age 11.(most were from Mrs J, the lady who >took care of me whenever Mother was not available) > >Bare bottom, at home, I got two that I specifically >recall. One from Grandfather, for a very public >temper-tantrum. I got it on the seat of the pants at >the restaurant, then I got full-on pants-down paddling >at home. > >And before that there was the only bare-bottom I ever >got from Mrs J. That was while I was in the tub. So >functionally it was only as severe as a >on-the-seat-of-the-pants correction. > >(All of this is of course not counting the one they >say that they give you when you're born, to make you >start breathing.) > >At Best-Friend's house, however, I got likely more >than a dozen. (Most bare-bottomed) I simply had more >of a tendency to get in trouble with Best-Friend than >on my own. (This includes four, perhaps a fifth that >I'm not recalling) properly, for public misbehavior. >Which always led to a pants down correction back home, >like with how my family operated. > >(Or rather, their house, after which I would likely be >returned to my parents.) > >Then there was that time with Vince's and Frankie's >father, a time while at some cousins, and a spanking I >got from Father down at the lumberyard. > > >After age 11, I spent most of my time at that school, >so paddlings at home just functionally were just not >as common of a thing. I doubt it was intentionally >decided that I wasn't to be paddled at home again. >Older-Brother sure got one (Possibly more) after he >was off to that school. But it just worked out that >way. > >At school, I got the horse-stick on four occasions. >And that's from 6th to 12th grade. Really it's more >like from 6th to 10th, as I never really got >disciplined my last 3 years there. > >I never got "swats" in elementary school, as >Best-Friend and I simply didn't go looking for >trouble. It was implied that she got them once. But I >never heard the details on that. And I never got them >myself. > >So all in all, from birth to 18, I probably averaged >out 2 per year. Maybe 3 if you actually bothered to do >the math. I was fairly well behaved, so that's not too >surprising.

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