I wondered in my most recent post whether the two consecutively-paddled girls in the hotel would avoid one another thereafter, or be united in adversity to become firm friends. Sarah’s comment proposed the latter, suggesting that “they would end up getting into mischief together and consequently getting punished together too”.

I immediately thought of the excursion programme that our resort offers every morning – dull-sounding trips to dull-sounding places. (Other than feeding the eagles, that is: but that apparently requires spending most of the day at sea, and neither Haron nor I can face the idea).

Fathers, though, would think of the idea of excursions as a ‘good thing’: their young ladies should ‘take in some culture’. It would be ‘educational’. By pure coincidence, our two heroines would find themselves, reluctantly, dragged by their respective fathers to the hotel reception at some ungodly hour, for the “Towns and Temples Tour”.

The girls would recognise one another, of course, and as they clambered into the minibus together, they would sit beside one another and shyly start to chat. “You two look as if you know one another already,” one father would comment. One of the girls would blushingly whisper an embarrassed explanation.

Later, the group would stop to explore a ruined temple. The girls would set off on their own, stern fatherly warnings not to be late for the 4pm departure ringing in their ears. Only neither of them would have a watch; the temple would turn out to be fascinating; they would lose track of time. It would be nearer 5 by the time they return to the had-been-worried, now-furious waiting party.

Their fathers would step forward; their explanations, their excuses would be brushed aside. “It seems that neither of you has learned from your punishment earlier in the week,” one would say.

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I can’t decide whether the fathers would cut switches from some nearby tree, using the tour guide’s pocket knife, and bend their girls over by the dusty roadside, next to one another, to punish them there and then…

…or whether they would be taken back to the hotel, where one father would suggest that it would save the hotel staff some work if the duo were to be paddled together this time. The other would offer the use of their room, and the girls would find themselves bent over the crisp white sheets.

And even in the hotel, decisions remain: would they be bent over facing one another, or side by side? Would they be allowed to hold hands? Would both fathers be used to administering discipline on the bare – or only one? And if so, would the latter require his daughter to lower her shorts and knickers too this time, “as it’s only fair that you be treated equally”?

Would one girl be punished, then the other, or would the strokes alternate? And if the strokes alternated, would the paddle be passed from one father to the next after each whack, so each punished his own daughter – or would the first father administer (say) the first ten whacks, five to each girl, before allowing the other a turn?

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