My wife can be belligerent at times. Not that she gets physical with it. Or hardly ever, anyway. I laid down the law very early in our relationship about that. No getting violent with the boyfriend or you suffer the consequences.
After I had to intervene in a stoush she started I extended the rule to no getting violent. Full stop. End of story. No exceptions.
The consequences were quite simple. If she starts hitting, I WILL spank her. She didn't believe it the first time, but walking funny for the rest of the day seemed to help get the point across.
So all I can say is that Beryl knew the consequences but got into a fight anyway. We have a baby-sitter who we occasionally use. Sharon is her name. Nice young lady, red-headed, about nineteen. And hot tempered, I had noticed.
We'd arranged for Sharon to sit one night because both Beryl and I had to be out. I was doing some overtime and Beryl had promised to go to a candle party, so hullo, baby-sitter.
When I arrived home I could hear an argument going on between Beryl and Sharon. It sounded a bit more than just a tiff so I headed into the lounge room tout de suite to break it up.
I was, it turned out, just a little bit late. The girls had progressed from yelling to hair pulling and other nasty little habits. I moved in to separate them. Foolish of me, I know, but what else could I do?
It took the girls a couple of seconds to wake up to the fact that there was a third protagonist involved in their little scuffle, but when I jerked them apart and held them apart it finally dawned on them that there was an irate man in the room. They both shut up for a moment, and then they both tried to justify themselves.
I politely asked them to be quiet. Actually, the way they both fell quiet, I may not have been too polite.
Then I explained to them that I disapproved of their behaviour. I didn't raise my voice. Sometimes a quiet voice is much more impressive. They both had to shut up and stay shut up to hear what I was saying, which they didn't seem to like very much from the way their faces flushed.
I pointed out I wasn't really interested in who started it or why it started. I pointed out to Sharon that Beryl was my wife and that I would naturally be on her side, right or wrong, so discussing the cause of the fight with me wouldn't help her much.
Sharon looked rather disgruntled at that, while Beryl looked smug. Beryl's smugness faded pretty quickly when I added we had a fixed policy in our household regarding physical violence and I would be speaking to Beryl on that subject in short order.
That's when Beryl butted in.
"Wait, wait, wait," she said. "That's not fair. Sharon was involved in the fight as well. Instead of just sending her home you should punish her as well."
"Good point," I said with a laugh, "but Sharon is not my responsibility. Anyway, she'd probably get all upset and cry. She's not as strong-minded as you are."
Now it was Sharon's turn to butt in.
"I would not," she snapped. "I can handle any punishment Beryl can handle."
Beryl sniggered at that, which got Sharon's back even more.
"What is the punishment, anyway?"
"I'm sorry, but it would be impolite for me to discuss any punishment I might be giving Beryl unless I was also giving you the same punishment," I pointed out.
"Well, if she can take it I can take it," snapped Sharon.
"I am assuming, of course, that you're not just going to throw her on the floor and ravish her or something like that," she added sarcastically.
"Oh, no. Ravishment would come after," I said. "But seeing you insist, I'll spank the pair of you right now."
Sharon looked blank for a moment, while it registered. Then she glanced at Beryl, who was grinning like the Cheshire cat.
"He's kidding, right?" she asked.
"He's not kidding?" she asked, seeing Beryl's smirk.
"Right. I can handle that. I suppose you want me to bend over your knee?" she suggested belligerently.
"Don't be silly, Sharon," I told her. "It would be uncomfortable and crowded with you both bent over my knee, now wouldn't it? No, I think I'll just have you both bend over the couch, leaning on your hands."
As Sharon turned to lean against the couch, I added the killer.
"Don't forget to drop your panties first."
Beryl had a skirt on, and when Sharon turned to look at her she was already taking down her panties, smirking while she did so.
It wasn't quite so simple for Sharon. She was wearing tights, and when she dropped them and her panties, she'd really be bare, where Beryl's dress would tend to cover her bottom. (And other parts.) However, Sharon had no intention of backing down in front of Beryl. She lowered her tights and panties and took up a position next to Beryl.
Beryl was standing with her legs together, a subtle message to me that she wasn't interested in any pussy spanking this time round. Sharon, poor little innocent, was standing with her legs slightly parted, with no notion of what was going to happen.
I tucked Beryl's skirt up out of the road and patted both bottoms for luck. Beryl just flashed a smirk at me whereas Sharon let out a little squeak.
The first spank had to go to Beryl, of course, and I made sure it was a noisy one. It was funny. It was Beryl whose bottom was smacked, but Sharon who let out another nervous squeak.
Another couple of spanks for Beryl and then I turned my attention to Sharon. A nice firm spank with a cupped hand on her rounded little bottom and she squealed and rose up on her toes. Letting her settle back down, I gave her another couple of quick spanks.
From that point I alternated spanks between Beryl and Sharon, giving them both their fair share of attention. I wasn't spanking turn and turn about, but mixing it up so that neither knew just which one of them would receive the next spank. There's nothing like a little apprehension to add some spice to life.