Bagshaw smiled as he saw Angus and Dulceana Smorthwaite entering the PainCafe.
As Headwaiter of the PainCafe, Bagshaw enjoyed the look of recognition from steady customers.
Bagshaw had begun bussing tables at the PainCafe at age nineteen, just after having been expelled from The Seventh Avenue Orphanage and Foundling Home, where he'd spent his formative years.
This had happened after Bagshaw had been caught in flagrante delicto with one of the Home's Teach For America volunteers.
Bagshaw had no interest in BDSM, but he was a quick adapter.
His tolerance and instincts of his customer's peculiar ways had helped him rise the ladder quickly at the PainCafe, and now, after twelve years service he was invincible as their maitre d.
"Looka there, Bags, there's the Smorthwaites" muttered Dermot McDermott, who had been bell captain of the PainCafe's Hotel for 33 years.
"I remember his granddaddy comin' in heah back in 1948 with Lady Medea, she gave old Smortie a floggin' .
Ayeh she did, right in th'lobby of th'PainCafe Ho-Tel, yessirree... made old Smortie howl"
"Get back in the Hotel, then you old fool" breathed Bagshaw...
Bags hated reminiscing...he'd also been a bellhop under Dermot, and what a pain in the ass the old bastard had been.
But Bags now put on his smile for the Smorthwaites.
"Good afternoon, Bagshaw" said Mrs. Smorthwaite, smiling.
"We hope you have a table for lunch today... Angus has been much too difficult for me to take to a traditional restaurant."
Angus Smorthwaite groaned.
"Oh, please, Dulceana...can't you not be a bit of a drama queen?
Can't we just eat a normal meal Bagshaw?"
Dulceana gave Bagshaw a significant look.
Bags nodded and escorted them to a center table.
"Will you be needing the Castor Oil today Madame? Or a cane for the table?"
Dulceana gave Bagshaw a frosty smile. S
he wore her bright red hair in a short but enticing bob, and was otherwise in a shiny black dress that emphasized her ample cleavage.
Angus was sixty, balding and somewhat overweight, and the owner of Smortie's Sportswear.
He was blushing after having heard his wife's words, but pretended to ignore Bagshaw and just take up the menu.
"That won't be necessary, Angus" Dulceana said genially.
"I will have the lobster bisque and a Cobb Salad and a glass of Chardonnay, and Angus will have a bowl of your Brat's Weak Porridge.
He's been irregular you know, Bagshaw, in his bowel movements.
Yes, and this will bring him a bit of peace."
"Now stop being like this, Dulceana." Angus said in an annoyed fashion.
"I don't need our private life spread out all over the place.
Look here, Bagshaw. I am paying the bill and your tip. I want a New York Strip Steak and a baked potato.
Please don't participate in my wife's neurosis.
What we do in our bedroom doesn't have to be dragged here."
Bagshaw looked straight at Dulceana.
"Are you sure you will not be needing the cane, madam?
I have the Porridge order, and of course your Cobb Salad committed to memory."
Bagshaw enjoyed the look of black rage on poor Angus's face.
And he knew that Dulceana had the charge account here at the PainCafe and would probably just ask Bagshaw to sign and add his own tip.
All the Smortie's Sportswear finances were in her name, and of course Angus just liked making a bit of a swell.
Bagshaw went to the kitchen. "A Cobb salad and a very weak porridge...make it gruel-like, okay, Hector?"
The Hispanic grinned.
"Anything you say, Bags. We got another brat in the dining room, huh?
God, I love this job, I think there's nothing' easier than making oatmeal weak, you know what I mean?
Do you still need the dish of Alpo for Table Six?
Bagshaw smiled.
"Yes, I think Mr. Ignilio will probably want seconds...remember to pee on it before I bring it out."
The crew all laughed, and Bagshaw spun on his heel to see what was going on in the dining room.
Bags heard some howling in the men's room, and assumed that Slevin Sharples, the used car sales guy was being worked over in there by his Black Master.
Bags was slightly irritated that it was a slow noon —not many people were here today.
Master Entworth was visiting with one of his hottie slave girls.
He was rapidly putting out five or six cigarettes in her meat loaf before they began eating.
And Fanchon was supposed to show up with the Senator at one—that was always good for some cash!
Bagshaw stood near the left side of the room, so if Dulceana got his eye, he could bring the cane that her husband desperately was going to need.
The Smorthwaites were one of those couples that provided condign entertainment for the noon hour quite a bit.
Bags hid a yawn with a menu and tried to look alert.
Angus was sweating bullets on his bald head as his gentle wife took him over the coals at the table.
"You are just an annoying little goblin, Angus...throwing fits, pouting, what shall I do with you."
Dulceana sipped a bit of Chardonnay.
"I've instructed Bagshaw to bring your prune juice in a toddler's plastic sippy cup. We can't have you spilling all over your Oxford shirt."
Angus, who had excellent manners, flushed.
Prune juice!
Dulcie wanted Angus to be "regular" and sometimes twice a day enemas just weren't enough, she felt.
It had been months since poor Angus had been allowed to drink any alcoholic beverage, and even soda pop such as Pepsi was saved
"for special occasions" like back when he was seven.
Angus bit his lip as his left buttock moved uncomfortably on the chair.
There was a nasty welt there— Dulci's favorite implement to use on him at home, in the Nursery, which was what she called his bedroom, was a barber's razor strop, one of the thick kinds.
This morning, Dulci had caught Angus touching himself inappropriately in the shower, and had led him, naked and dripping out into the living room by the ear.
Their three grown daughters had laughed and applauded while Dulci had first taken Angus over her skirted knee and whipped his bare buttocks with her leather bedroom slipper.
Yes, and then with her oval elephant's tusk hairbrush, before moving on to the evil razor strop.
And of course their daughters had laughed and made snide remarks. Young women could be quite thoughtless, Angus considered.
"Oh, Mom this is good" Sierra, the youngest had nudged Bridget.
"Can Daddy keep from crying? Can he not be a sissy boy for just ONCE?"
"Now for the strop...off my lap and over the hassock, dear."
Dulcie had bound Angus's wrists and ankles for this, because the strop often made him dance and sometimes run out in the front lawn of Smorthwaite Lodge, in front of the butler, gardener and other servants, stark naked.
This often made for an uncomfortable overturn in staffing.
"Now I am going to try to help you to not cry and scream like a little bitch. I will hold and caress your head in my lap as you lie over the hassock, and Corrine will administer your discipline.
It will be unappetizing for her to have to view your rather flabby gluteus maximus, but what can we do?"
Angus had known that he had to be a brave sixty year old "boy" and let his oldest daughter do her worst, but it was never easy.
"Now be a brave boy and don't cry in front of the children" Dulci had said, as she'd begun kissing and rubbing his hair as his head sat in her lap as she was on the couch...
This with his back and buttocks on the damn hassock!
"B-but it hurts so much, and she's my daughter, it's so embarrassing, and painful." Angus whined.
He knew how ridiculous it was.
Hildegard, the upstairs maid, had wandered into the drawing room to watch as well, and that was terrible also.
Hildegard had recently reported Angus to Dulci for sneaking into the laundry and sniffing panties, and what a punishment that had been!
"Just no crying, dear. Let Corrine take a few shots at your naughty tushie while I teach you not to cry.
Be a little MAN, Angus."
And then 20 year old Corrine had shyly taken the strop and begun lambasting poor Angus's rump while Dulceana had rubbed his ears and cheeks, giving him kisses.
"No one likes a sissy-boy, Angus. If you can take a thrashing without any crying or tantrums, I'll let you stay up until ten o'clock this week and perhaps let you watch your tiresome basketball playoffs."
That was very generous of Dulcie...
She had cured Angus of football passion by attaching a car battery to his cock and balls, and making him sit on it naked, freezing in November, while watching games naked, in the garage.
He was no longer allowed to watch television at the local bar, or at friends houses, and although the room, and only Dulci had the key.
She had made Angus go through all manner of chores and tests before she'd let him watch a Saturday of football, including sometimes blowing the butler before he fucked Dulci's wet pussy.
Dulci was really tough. But then, finally, it would be time for Angus to watch the telly...