Do You Want to Know What's Coming?

"You have ten more to go," he announces, holding you firmly in position and pinning your hands in the small of your back. "I want you to count them!"
"But I don't need any spanks anymore... I've already learnt my lesson!"
"Now we reinforce it so you won't forget too soon."

Does that sound familiar? Bet it does. So what's with the announcing business: you have ten more with the paddle, one full minute with the brush, another six with the cane to make it twelve? Better to know or better not to know?

Of course, we are pretty much debating it from the brat's point of view, the receiving end.

Personally, I don't like numbers. Of course it would depend on the situation and the game, but generally speaking, numbers limit my anticipation. Five more? Ok. It's bad enough but I can get through them. When you count "four" you know you're already there, you know the punishment is over. It's predictable. And if too predictable, it sometimes ruins the fun.

I'd rather have phrases such as: "I want you to go to your room/to the corner and think about the spanking you will get." Or "Stop? I've barely started", while you have already counted at least twenty.

I like tricky stuff. He pats your bottom, lets you up, you are oh-so-proud-of-yourself for tricking him into spanking you less, then he smiles sweetly at you: "Go fetch my belt." KO.

Okay, maybe I was wrong about the one-minute issue; maybe getting one more minute of a spanking is not that bad, given that you don't know how many smacks he will deliver per minute. Of course, you do know they will all be hard. - Aren't they always? - But the whole point is, why do you like them announced before? Maybe this announcing business has something to do with hard spankings and with 'counting' them as a kink. With forgetting the numbes, forgetting a "Sir', breaking position, and any other situation that can bring you more spanks than anticipated. In any case, when those numbers hit me, that's what I do: I always play. I manage to trick myself into playing, because, you see, I am a brat and taking "six" won't do. I take irrational spankings, not delivered quatities of them. Does it make sense? I don't know, but obviously, I understand what I am saying. lol

Anyway, that's the story of "how many". Want to share some thoughts? I'd be glad to hear them. I like different points of view. The spanking life would be boring in only one shade of red.

Cheers!