{"id":67,"date":"2005-04-02T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2006-01-15T20:36:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T03:36:34","slug":"the-joys-of-being-a-brat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/the-joys-of-being-a-brat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joys Of Being A Brat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m sitting on a very tingly bottom due to a few hard swats Dan gave me with the bath brush.  He&#8217;s off to take care of business and I&#8217;m about to go out to an outdoor arts and crafts fair.  <\/p>\n<p>I love hopping from booth to booth looking for unique items.  Yesterday I bought some very nice jewelry but only got through part of the fair.  I like looking closely at items and it drives Dan crazy.  His method is to stroll quickly by each booth and if something catches his eye, pause for a moment before moving on. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t do that!  I have to inspect the things that catch my eye, turn them over, ask questions, and generally assure myself as to whether I need the item or not.  My idea of &#8220;need&#8221; is a lot different from Dan&#8217;s too.  I&#8217;ve &#8220;needed&#8221; several items that he just shakes his head at.  Lucky for me, he&#8217;s sweet enough not to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Dan&#8217;s only worry during my little excursions is that I behave.  If we&#8217;re together, he swears if I embarrass him, he&#8217;ll just walk off and leave me.  I&#8217;ve decided between that threat and our different shopping styles, that it&#8217;s just better to go shopping by myself.  I can&#8217;t help it if my gung-ho nature sometimes comes across as being bratty.<\/p>\n<p>So we decided I&#8217;d go shopping alone.  And Dan being Dan, he decided to buy himself a little insurance with the bath brush.  He thinks that if he gives me a tingly bottom to take with me while I&#8217;m out, that it&#8217;ll be a reminder to behave myself.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure it works like he plans though.  There&#8217;s something in me that makes a quick spanking (no matter how intense) more of a good thing than the true detterent he had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow having a tingly bottom makes me feel like more of a well-loved brat inside.  I get this giddy fun-loving feeling and I go out into the world secure and sure of myself.  It doesn&#8217;t matter that I know I&#8217;ll get more of the same.  In fact, I&#8217;m happy to know that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll get.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying I won&#8217;t behave myself.  I&#8217;ll keep my bratting down to a dull roar with strangers not because I&#8217;m afraid of a spanking I could get.  I behave myself because I have a tingling bottom given to me by the man who loves and cherishes me.  The tingling is a sweet and quiet reminder I&#8217;ll be carrying with me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go out happy and confident.  It&#8217;s hard to be too bratty when I&#8217;m feeling so good.  Dan&#8217;s efforts to help me behave don&#8217;t work exactly like he plans but they still work.  I can&#8217;t say I find anything wrong with that deal at all. *grin*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m sitting on a very tingly bottom due to a few hard swats Dan gave me with the bath brush. He&#8217;s off to take care of business and I&#8217;m about to go out to an outdoor <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/the-joys-of-being-a-brat\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}