When I was in my twenties and attending college I acquired the dubious privilege of becoming the caretaker for the dorm I was assigned to. "Why me?" I asked. Because I was the oldest, probably the most sensible, most in need of cheap rent, and willing to work for the pittance that the job paid. They had me at cheap rent and paid.
The dorm housed about twenty students and they were a fair mix. Most of them were your average college types, wanting to get their degrees so they could start earning big bucks. (I was one of this type.) There were a couple of idiots who wouldn't last the distance and a jock who assumed that kicking a ball hard was better than possessing brains. I didn't have the heart to tell him that the players who went on to become professionals had both brains and brawn. Brawn alone wouldn't cut it.
Naturally there were some troublesome students, two girls in particular. They were both about twenty, quite lovely, and both with different personalities. Tegan was the Karen type of woman. Never saw anything that she couldn't improve upon. There was only one way to do things -- her way. Try and do it another way and she'd be in your face, moaning and complaining. The type to count a box that said contents approx. 500 and then complain if there weren't 500 precisely. A genuine pain in the neck.
The other problem child was Naomi. A happy-go-lucky, free-spirited, young lady who enjoyed the world around her. She couldn't stand Tegan. If she would just leave Tegan alone I wouldn't mind the subtle hostility between the pair. However, Naomi went out of her way to trigger Tegan. For example, after the window washers had been around Naomi casually pointed out that they'd left a smear on Tegan's window. All Tegan needed to do was get a piece of cloth and wipe the offending smear away. Fat chance of that happening. Tegan went spare, denouncing all window washers and standing in my little office demanding the entire crew be brought back to clean her window and fire the man who left it smeared.
I promised to take care of the problem and almost pushed her out of my office. As soon as Tegan went to class I headed over to her place and wiped off the smear. Then I went looking for Naomi.
"Naomi, I want you to stop triggering Tegan. It interferes with my work. It interferes with the other students. It's breeding an unhappy atmosphere within the dorm. I want it stopped and I want it stopped now."
"I have no idea what you're talking about," she replied, smiling and looking innocent.
"I'm talking about you smearing her window and then bringing it to her attention after the cleaners had left. Yes, you did. I saw you." The last bit because she'd been ready to deny the charge.
She capitulated, politely and apologetically.
"Ok, I'll behave. I didn't mean to cause anyone else trouble. Sorry about that."
"That's good. Now we don't need to worry about future consequences," I said, smiling.
"Consequences?" she said giving me a suspicious look.
"Mm. You know, retribution for misbehaviour."
"Retribution?" Still suspicious.
"Yes. I mean, I don't want to have to put you over my knee and spank you and I'm sure you don't want it either so we're in accord."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Keep telling yourself that. Bye now."
I departed.
When Tegan returned from her current classes I intercepted her and suggested we had a little talk. She was belligerent but agreed. As soon as we were comfortably seated in my office I began.
"Tegan, that smudge on your window has been removed."
"Oh, good. Was the careless employee terminated? He should be you know."
"I know no such thing. The window service did an impeccable job. Someone else smeared your window after they had finished."
"Why would anyone do that? Who was it? I want them expelled."
"Tegan, how much work do you think there was in wiping the smear off the window. I'll tell you. Two minutes to take a cloth, walk to the window, and wipe the smear off. How much time did it take for you to come down here and make a complaint? Far more than two minutes. You spent five minutes in here alone, ranting about the standards of window cleaners. Why didn't you wipe the window yourself?"
"Me? It's not my job to wash the windows."
I cut her off before she went into a full blown rant.
"Nobody is asking you to wash the windows. I'm just saying that if that smear irritated you the simplest solution was to wipe it off yourself. Why didn't you?"
She spluttered a bit but before she could make a defence I started in again.
"You didn't do it because no-one would have noticed you doing it. Complaining makes you the centre of attention. People notice you, making you feel important. Well, congratulations, I have decided to notice you. If I find you harassing other students or if you come in here with a frivolous complaint there will be repercussions, and you won't enjoy them."
"How dare you. I will complain to your superiors. You'll be fired."
"If you complain to my superiors I'll be happy to be fired. I doubt I will be because not everyone wants this job. But go ahead. It will give me a chance to demonstrate those repercussions."
"Just what are these vaunted repercussions of yours?" she demanded.
"I will take great pleasure in putting you over my knee and paddling your backside. You never know, maybe that will get me fired. I can only hope."
Tegan looked quite shocked at the thought of being spanked.
"You wouldn't dare."
"Why do people keep on telling me I wouldn't dare do something when I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it."
Tegan turned and stalked out of my office, oozing injured dignity. I wondered which of the pair would be the first to draw my ire. My money was on Tegan. She didn't need Naomi's machinations to get into strife over something.
Pity I had no-one to bet with. Tegan was back in my office that very evening, almost frothing at the mouth. Someone had taken her clothes out of the clothes dryer.
"They stole them?" I asked, thinking nasty thought about Naomi.
"No. They put them in my clothes basket. That's beside the point. They had no right to take my things out of the drier."
"Tegan, we have to maximise the use of the driers. We can't have one sitting idle because you haven't bothered to unload it. You caused the problem and someone was pro-active in fixing it. There is one other small problem though."
I got up and moved around to her side of the desk, giving her a hand to help her up out of the chair.
"What? My clothes don't rate but your problem does?"
"Correct. Your complaint was frivolous. Someone helped you by unloading your clothes. All you had to do was pick up your basket and take them home. You should be thanking them."
I sat down and gave her hand, which I hadn't released, a jerk, causing Tegan to fall across my lap. She promptly protested this action, a protest that became somewhat shriller when I lifted her dress, exposing her rump, neatly covered by lime green panties. The protests stopped when my hand came down smartly on her bottom.
I pretty much covered the same points I'd made earlier. She should be self-sufficient and solve her own problems. She shouldn't worry about correcting other peoples' behaviour. She especially shouldn't waste peoples' time with frivolous complaints. Apart from a few gasps she seemed to accept the spanking with more grace than I expected. There were two interesting little signs that I noticed during the spanking. Her legs drifted further apart giving me easier access to her naughty bits if I wanted it and the colour of her panties darkened over her naughty bits, indicating a certain flow of moisture there.
I swung her back to her feet and she gave me a very enigmatic look, swung on her heels, and departed.
I wondered who had the gall to shift Tegan's clothes and only one name came to mind -- Naomi. I decided to visit her. I knocked on her door and she opened it, smiling the smile of the totally innocent. I offered my hand and she took it, silly girl, as I promptly twisted it and had her in what the police call a come-along. If a cop has you in one of those you go with him, like it or not, as the not option hurts.
"Dear girl, I did warn you about pushing Tegan's buttons. Why didn't you learn?"
"What? I have no idea what you're talking about."
"You removed her clothes from the drier, knowing how she'd react, and before you deny it I have a witness."
"All I did was put them in her clothes basket," protested Naomi. "It saved her the trouble of taking them out herself."