5 year old Archie Andrews was playing pirates with his best friend Jughead Jones. Archie was up in a barel on top of his toy boat. Jughead was 1/2 way up the rope ladder. Archie was not allowed to play with the boat yet because his father wasn't completely done building it yet. However Archie and Jughead couldn't resist.
Archie had climbed to the top and was standing in a barrel that Fred had not secured yet. "No sharks in sight" Archie called down to his friend. SNAP! The barrel had broken and both Archie and the barrel were falling. CLANG! The barrel hit the top of Fred's car.
Fred and Mary came rushing outside at the noise. "I'm okay folks." Archie called to them standing up.
"But my car isn't." Fred yelled. "Look at that dent."
Archie's mouth fell open at the sight of the dent. He was in big trouble now. WACK, Fred landed a single sharp swat on Archie's bottom as he yelled "Get up to your room." Archie grabbed his stinging bottom, and soft tears ran down his face. Archie ran to his bedroom.
"Jughead, you get inside too. Go sit on the couch." Fred said sternly.
Fred turned to his wife Mary. "I'll call Jughead's parents, and let them know what the boys did." Fred told her. "How are we going to punish Archie?" Fred asked his wife.
"For direct disobedience, and denting the car? We have to spank him." Mary said.
Fred sighed. "I agree. Who spanked him last time?" Fred asked.
"It was me" said Mary. "It is your turn to punish him."
Fred groaned. He hated punishing Archie... who was extremely dramatic during a spanking. There was going to be a full blown temper tantrum.
"I'll call Jughead's parents. Have them come get him." Fred said to his wife.
"Jughead is more than welcomed to stay. It might not be very much fun. Archie will still have to be punished." Mary said.
"I'll see what FP and Gladys want to do." Fred said to his wife.
RING RING, RING RING. "Hello, this is Gladys."
"Gladys, this is Fred. I'm calling about Jughead the boys got in a little trouble."
"What did they do?" Gladys asked.
"Well, I built this wooden ship for Archie, it wasn't done yet. Archie knew he wasn't allowed to play on it until I said so. There was a barrel that hadn't been secured down yet that the boys climbed into. It fell, and dented my car. I told the boys to stay clear of it, that it wasn't ready yet." Fred exsplained.
"Well FP, left with the truck awhile ago. He won't be back until after midnight. He had to go up to Centerville." Gladys exsplained. "There is no way for me to pick him up right now."
"Jughead is more than welcome to stay. It just might not be a very fun night. Archie is going to be punished." Fred exsplained.
"If Jughead knew better than he should be punished the same way that Archie is. If Archie is in timeout, then Jughead should be in timeout too. If Archie gets a spanking, then Jughead deserves to be spanked as well. I give you permission to discipline Jughead however you are disciplining Archie." Gladys told Fred.
"We are planning to spank Archie." Fred exsplained.
"Then Jughead should be spanked too." Said Gladys.
In the end Fred agreed to punish Jughead as well.
Fred walked into the living room where little Jughead Jones was sitting. "Jughead, please go up to Archie's room. I want to talk to you boys together. I'll be up there in just a minute." Fred said to the small boy.
Jughead opened Archie's bedroom door to see Archie laying face down on his bed crying. Jughead climbed onto the bed and sat next to his crying friend.
"What's wrong Archie?" Jughead asked. "Are you crying because you gotta spankin? It will be okay Archie. It didn't look like a terrible spankin." Jughead said trying to comfort his friend.
Archie sat up and dried his eyes.
"Does it still hurt?" Jughead asked.
Archie shook his head no.
"Then why are you still cryin?" Jughead asked his friend.
Archie shrugged his shoulders. Before Jughead could get a real answer out of Archie Fred came in. Fred pulled the desk chair out, turned it to face the boys then said. "We need to talk boys. Do you know what about."
"Us denting your car." Said Jughead.
"Well, kind of Jughead." Fred responded. "We need to talk about you two playing on the toy ship when I said it wasn't ready yet, and that it wasn't safe until it was finished." "Do you boys remember me saying not to play on the toy ship?" Fred asked the boys.
Both boys nodded.
"Do you remember me telling you why you couldn't play on the toy ship?" Fred asked
The children nodded once again.
"Then tell me why." He said patiently.
"It wasn't done yet." Archie said.
"And?" Fred asked.
"It wasn't safe." Said Jughead.
"That's right." Fred said. "If both of you boys remember me saying that then why were you playing in the ship?" Fred asked them.
The boys shrugged.
"I want an answer." Fred told them sternly. "Who's idea was it?"
"It was Jughead's" Archie cried out. "I told him that we weren't allowed, but Jughead dared me too."
"SHHHH!" Yelled Jughead.
"Jughead, is that true?" Fred asked him.
"Tattletale" Jughead said to Archie.
"Jughead... I asked you a question." Fred said both sternly and patiently.
"Yes, But... Archie wa..."
"No Buts Jughead." Fred said to the boy. "And Archie... We talked about daring. You are responsible for your own actions." Fred said sternly. "Soo, was it a good choice or a bad choice to play in the ship?"
"Bad" both boys mumbled.
"Why was it a bad choice?" Fred asked.
"You told us not too." Jughead said.
"And It wasn't safe." Archie added.
"So... you Boys knew it was against the rules, and that it was dangerous, but you did it anyway. So what do you think should happen now?" Fred asked.
The boys didn't answer. Instead they became very interested in their shoes.
"Boys." Fred said sternly.
"We get in trouble." Archie said... he has had many of these talks during his 5 years of life, and knew he was in big trouble.
"We should say sorry." Said Jughead... "for breaking the toy ship, and denting your car." "I'm sorry Mr. Andrews."
"I'm sorry Daddy." Added Archie.
"You Boys are forgiven, but you are both going to be punished. Jughead, I called your mom, she thinks you deserve the same punishment as Archie, and I agree" said Fred. "You both are going to get a spanking, then you are going to stand in the corner. Understand?"
"Yes Daddy." -Archie
"Yeah, Mr. A." -Jughead
"Okay, Archie come here. You're first."
Fred had barely gotten the sentence out of his mouth when the tantrum started. Archie threw himself on the ground pounding his fist and kicking his feet. "I DON'T WANNA SPANKIN. AHHHHHHHHH I DONT WANNA SPANKIN. NOOOOOOO."
Fred picked the boy up and gave him two sharp WACKS to his bottom. "You scream like that again Archie, and I'll go get the spankin spoon." Fred said to his son. Fred was on his knee so he could be eye level with his son. Fred got back up and sat in the chair in Archie's room. "Now Archie, lets try this again. I need you to come over here for your spanking."
Archie stood up. "NOOOOOO!" He tried to run away. Fred got to Archie before he opened the door, picked him up and gave him a single SMACK on his bottom, before setting him down. "This is your last chance son. If you do not go over to that chair and bend over my knee for a spanking you will be getting spanked with the spanking spoon. It is your choice Archie."
Fred returned to the chair in his son's room. He waited for Archie to stop crying before saying, "Come here Archie." Archie obeyed. "Archie why are you getting spanked?"
"Cuz not listening." Archie replied.
"That's right Archie, your disobedience could have caused you to get hurt." Fred responded.
Fred picked up Archie, laid him across his lap. "You are getting 4 swats Archie." He told his son. Fred picked up his hand and landed the first painful SMACK causing Archie to yelp. WACK Archie kicked his little legs as he cried. WHAP "owwwie" Archie cried out. CRACK. Fred landed the hardest swat yet. Archie's face was filled with tears and snot. Fred sat Archie on his lap. Archie hugged Fred around the neck cried into his shirt. Fred continued to hug and confort the boy until he had stopped crying. Fred kissed Archie on the top of the head. "Go Sit down Archie." Fred instructed. Archie took a seat on his bed next to Jughead. "Jughead, Come here, it's your turn."
Jughead stood up, and nervously walked over to Fred. He had never been spanked by Fred before, and was nervous of how bad it would hurt. Jughead was thinking about how loud he cried when his mom or dad spanked him, and how bad Archie had cried, and was expecting the worst. Jughead stooped directly infront of Mr. Andrews.
"Jughead, why are you about to get this spanking?" Fred asked the child.
"Cuz Me and Archie played on the boat even though you said not too." Jughead answered.
"Okay, Jughead you are going to get 4 swats, the same as Archie got." Fred told him.
"Okay." Jughead whispered, he was holding back tears. Fred placed Jughead across his lap. SMACK Jughead started crying after the first swat. WACK Jughead cried a little louder. WHAP WHAP. It was over. Fred had comforted Jughead, just as he has with his own son. Once the boys had completely stopped crying Fred led them down stairs.
"Archie go stand in that corner over there, Jughead over there. You boys are going to stand in the corner for 5 minutes." Fred sent Archie to one corner, and Jughead to another.
Jughead started bawling when Fred had lead him to the corner. Jughead tried several times to escape the corner, only to be lead back each and every time by Fred.
"Jughead, every time you get out of the corner your 5 minutes stars over." Fred said sternly. It took over 30 minutes for Jughead to complete his 5 minutes timeout.
After Jughead and Archie had finally finished their timeouts they were allowed to go up to Archie's room to play. Mary and Fred were in the kitchen. "Fred, what do you want to do for dinner?" Mary asked.
"I don't know Mary... Let's just order pizza. Punishing the boys was exsausting." Fred said while suppressing a yawn.
"I think it's safe to say we want Archie to be an only child for the rest of his life?" Mary said.
"You think punishing Archie is hard. Jughead took his spanking just fine, but trying to get that child to stand in the corner for 5 minutes proved damn near impossible." Fred told his wife.
Fred ordered pizza while Mary helped the boys get washed up for dinner. Once the pizza arrived Fred fixed the boys plates and sat them at the kitchen table. After dinner the boys asked to play outside. "Yes, you may go outside. Stay in the front yard. But I'm warning you boys. If you even so much as think of going near that boat you will get spanked, and it will be with the spankin spoon. Do you understand me?" Fred asked sternly.
Both boys promised they wouldn't go near the boat.
Once the sun started to set the boys were called inside, and told to get ready for bed. Once the boys were cleaned up, and changed into pajamas Mary put on a cartoon movie for the boys to watch. The boys fell asleep down in the living room. The next day the boys were woken up by Fred, Mary had already gone to work.
"Breakfast is ready." Fred told them as he fixed them plates of french toast and bacon. Breakfast was barely finished when Fred heard a knock on the door. "Oh, hey FP. Come on in." Fred said as he answered the door. FP walked in, only to immediately be spotted by Jughead. "DADDY!" The boy yelled running up to his father. FP picked him up, and hugged him.
"Hey buddy, why don't you go upstairs and get all your stuff together." FP said putting the small boy back down. "I need to talk to Fred about grownup stuff."
"Okay" Jughead said smiling. "Archie! Come help me." The two children set off upstairs together.
"Gladys told me that the boys dented your car." FP said to Fred.
"They did. Gladys told me to punish Jughead the same way I was punishing Archie, so Jughead got spanked, and put in timeout." Fred informed FP.
"I'm sorry about your car. I can pop that dent out for you while I'm here." FP said.
"I'd appreciate the help." Fred responded.
"How did punishing Jughead go." FP asked.
"The spanking went fine. I spanked Archie first, then I told Jughead to come over to me for his turn. Jughead obeyed, I told him he was getting 4 swats... the same as Archie, I spanked his butt, and that was that. Then I tried to put the boys in timeout. Jughead wouldn't stay so it kept starting over. It took 30 minutes to get Jughead to do a 5 minute timeout." Fred exsplained.
"That's Jughead for you... Gladys and I usually have to give him a few swats to get him to stay in timeout." FP exsplained.
"Jughead, get down here." FP hollered up the stairs. Jughead came down with his overnight bag. FP sat on a kitchen chair Jughead climbed onto his father's lap. "Jug, did you and Archie get in any trouble this weekend?" FP asked calmly.
Jughead nodded slowly.
"What happened?" FP asked his son.
Jughead told FP about the boat, tears running down his face... Jughead was scared that he was going to get in more trouble.
"And did Mr. and Mrs. Andrews punish you Boy?" FP asked.
Jughead nodded.
"Go on Jug." FP said patiently.
"Archie and I got whooped, then we had to stand in timeout." Jughead whispered.
"And did you stay in timeout, or did you keep running out.." FP asked his teary eyed son.
"I didn't wanna timeout." Jughead cried.
"So did you stay in timeout, or did you keep running out." FP asked more sternly.
"I kept getting out." Jughead admitted.
"Why?" FP asked losing paitence.
"I don't know. I hate timeout." Jughead cried.
"Boy, if you are supposed to be in timeout then you need to stay there. It's not supposed to be fun. It's a punishment." FP lectured. "Do you understand me Boy."
Jughead nodded.
"Good, now go apologize to Mr. Andrews." FP instructed his son.
"Are you gunna spank me?" Jughead asked.
"No boy I'm not." FP responded. "Not this time, but next time you are told to stand in the corner, and you don't your little butt will be very sorry Boy."
Jughead gave his father a guilty smile, then he climbed off his father's lap to apologize to Fred.
"Mr. Andrews." Jughead said sheepishly.
"Yes Jughead." Fred replied.
"I'm sorry that Archie and I dented your car." Jughead said to Fred. "I'm also sorry that I wouldn't stay in timeout.
"It's okay Jughead, Just understand, that when you are over here, and Mary or I tell you not to do something there is a reason." Fred told the child.
"I know Mr. Andrews. I'm sorry." Jughead whispered before running back to his father. FP picked Jughead up and kissed him on top of the head.
"What do you say Fred. How about I help you pop that dent out before Jughead and I head home." FP said.
The two men set outside to pop the dent out, then FP took Jughead to Pop's for a milkshake before heading home.