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Detrimental Attitude by DCFTEF
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                                            Detrimental Attitude by DCFTEF
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                                            (24/11/2021)
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                                            >Peachy Sprite was a filly who liked to have fun
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                                            >A lot
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                                            >In fact it was one of the major problems of her life that she liked fun a lot more than the work required to earn that fun
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                                            >Temptation drew her irresistibly, like a magnet
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                                            >When she was little this didn't cause any problems
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                                            >They youngest foal of her family by a significant number of years
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                                            >she was indulged and allowed to remain the baby of the family far too long
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                                            >While her elder siblings had responsibility laid upon them at appropriate ages
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                                            >Peachy was sheltered from it by both mother and siblings
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                                            >Of course, every filly gets into trouble and Peachy was no different
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                                            >She got into more than her share in fact
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                                            >But her adoring siblings often bailed her out of it
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                                            >Or Mom brushed it off as cute, foalish mischief
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                                            >When Sprite had done something that positively, undeniably required a response it was always;
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                                            "You wait until your father gets home."
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                                            >Peachy's father was a hard-working stallion who would rather have come home to anything but a naughty filly in need of a spanking
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                                            >He hated being the disciplinarian
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                                            >He worked all day at a job he did not like, so he could go home and spend time with his family
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                                            >Having to punish one of them so frequently frustrated him and broke his heart
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                                            >But he was a good father and did his duty
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                                            >And Peachy Sprite was just a filly...she would get better.
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                                            >Peachy Sprite's irresponsible behavior only got worse as she became a teenager
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                                            >She had never learned restraint or mature decision making
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                                            >And when faced with the tantalizing temptations of teenagerhood she indulged
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                                            >Her Mom and siblings laughed, and called her a party girl
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                                            >Her Dad grumbled because he now had to deal with issues like, curfew, drugs and colts
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                                            >Her mother didn't do much to sanction her at all
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                                            >Peachy's Dad felt she was too old for spanking
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                                            >But nothing else worked
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                                            >She hated being grounded, so she whined and Mom let her off the hook
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                                            >When she lost privilege's her adoring older siblings snuck the same indulgences to her behind Dad's back
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                                            >This was easy, because Dad had to work all the time
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                                            >He wasn't around to ensure she stayed grounded, or didn't get her saddlebag money allowance
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                                            >Spankings were his only option
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                                            >Peachy hated and feared them intensely
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                                            >So for a time they worked
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                                            >Peachy generally stated out of trouble
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                                            >Her grades were good
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                                            >She completed High School
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                                            >But only because her unwilling Dad was always there with that awful, horrible, no good, nasty paddle
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                                            >Peachy Sprite gave her Dad a big hug and even acknowledged his painful discipline in her graduation speech, to much laughter in the audience
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                                            >The good grades Peachy was required to get
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                                            >(or else, WHACK!)
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                                            >got her into Bridleburg University
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                                            >It was a long way from home and Peachy's father cringed
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                                            >But she was just a kid, she would get better, right?
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                                            >The whole family was excited that Peachy Sprite had gotten into prestigious Bridleburg University
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                                            >But her father was worried
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                                            >She had only gotten through High School with a paddle constantly threatening her rear
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                                            >Now she would be living miles and miles away
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                                            >He had a serious talk with her when he traveled to campus to help her move into the dorm
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                                            "You have to control yourself, honey
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                                            "Your attitude is detrimental to success.
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                                            "It's time you grew up."
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                                            >Jokingly he added
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                                            "You're a legal adult, I won't be there to spank you anymore!"
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                                            >They both had a good laugh
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                                            >That stuff was all in the past, they were both sure
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                                            >Peachy Sprite had honestly wanted to be a good filly when her Mom & Dad left on the train
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                                            >But that night she drank 15 cups of cider...stole the school mascot...lost her virginity and passed out in the Dean's flower garden.
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                                            >Peachy could have been expelled on the spot.
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                                            >But as usual ponies cut her slack and she got away with it.
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                                            "She's only a freshman on her first weekend at college
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                                            "She'll get better."
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                                            >She begged the University not to send a report to her Dad, and they indulged her
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                                            >So he never found out
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                                            >By mid-term Peachy hadn't gotten better
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                                            >She had a reputation as a party filly
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                                            >She had blown through all the money Mom & Dad gave her to last the whole year
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                                            >She was only attending half her classes
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                                            >And was failing nearly all of them
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                                            >One super embarrassing day...Dad arrived on the train to sort things out
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                                            >He kinda lost his cool
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                                            "Sprite, when are you gonna grow up?
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                                            "You're blowing an incredible, one in a lifetime opportunity here!
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                                            "All because of this detrimental attitude you have!
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                                            "You can have fun, honey...I want you to.
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                                            "But the work has to come first.
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                                            "You can't do this all your life."
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                                            >Peachy was genuinely listening
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                                            >She was scared
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                                            >She was about to flunk out and she knew all this partying was endangering her future
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                                            >But she'd learned no self discipline over her life
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                                            "D-Dad...I can't believe I'm asking you this but...
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                                            "Could you do that thing you used to do when I was a kid?"
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                                            >Sprite's father was totally against it
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                                            "You're an adult now! That's a punishment for little foals!"
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                                            >But one thing she had learned at college was debate
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                                            >And she wore him down with her logic
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                                            "Dad, please...you KNOW I don't want it.
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                                            "But that's just the point.
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                                            "I have problems, I know that, I'm sorry!
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                                            "But you wouldn't make a drug addict or alcoholic just quit with no help, would you?"
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                                            >Peachy was serious
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                                            "I just need a little help.
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                                            "Just ween me off of it and I promise I'll be more mature."
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                                            >Sprite's father didn't like it
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                                            >But he had to take the train back home and go to work on Monday
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                                            >He couldn't stay in Bridleburg and supervise his legally adult daughter
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                                            "I will do this ONCE but never again!
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                                            "It's your detrimental attitude that needs attention,
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                                            "Not your rear-end!"
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                                            >Peachy would have been satisfied to be spanked in the dorm
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                                            >Totally embarrassing but kinda the point
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                                            >She wanted it to sink in
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                                            >Plus, she wouldn't be the first college filly whose parents had to visit campus and straighten his daughter out
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                                            >A few freshmen had already gotten visits from their daddies this term
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                                            >Probably happened in the colts' dorm too.
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                                            >But Dad was embarrassed by this
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                                            "You're a legal adult
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                                            "What I'm doing is assault!"
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                                            >Peachy argued though;
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                                            "Not if it's consensual."
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                                            >But that didn't make Dad happy
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                                            "It shouldn't be happening at all!"
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                                            >He insisted that they do it at his hotel, just off campus
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                                            >So Peachy Sprite was marched off on an extra-long walk of doom
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                                            >Through campus, across the quad and finally to the hotel
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                                            >The desk clerk must have thought he was a dirty old stallion
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                                            >A sugar daddy checking in with a way-too-young college filly.
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                                            >The sounds of smacking and squealing coming from the room only backed up this guess
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                                            >It sounded like "Daddy" liked to play naughty schoolgirl with his "Little filly"
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                                            >Little did they know it was 100% true
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                                            >He was her father and he was legitimately giving his little naughty schoolfilly a spanking
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                                            >A slat from the bed made a fearsome paddle
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                                            >Painful enough to make Peachy sorry she ever took a sip of cider
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                                            >But Dad found the whole situation so humiliating he wished the hotel DID assume he was a pervert rather than know the truth
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                                            >But this was the last time, right? She would get better.
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                                            >It wasn't the last time
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                                            >Peachy Sprite's father had to take her across his knee once that summer
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                                            >And he had to visit campus one more time during her sophomore year
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                                            >But that was finally the last time
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                                            >Peachy graduated with good grades and her Dad breathed a sigh of relief
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                                            >It was over now
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                                            >She was a grown up mare now, with the skills and degree to have a successful life
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                                            >So he was a little worried when she announced her decision to backpack around the world for a few months before taking on a job
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                                            >But she had absolutely no money so how much trouble could she get in?
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                                            >It was her successful older siblings that indulged her this time
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                                            >They each kicked in money so their little sister could make her world tour
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                                            >By now they understood how their previous coddling hadn't helped Peachy
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                                            >This was their misguided attempt to make it up to her
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                                            >They thought the trip would help her learn some of the maturity she'd missed out on
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                                            >Instead it just gave her another year to dodge responsibility and keep building bad habits
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                                            >Peachy Sprite ran out of money in the first month but fell in with experienced backpacking ponies who showed her how to live the life
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                                            >Like this she bounced all over the world for months
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                                            >All over Equestria
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                                            >The Eastern Lands
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                                            >Griffonstone and Yakyakistan
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                                            >Mt. Arris...and even the dragon lands
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                                            >Tourism had really opened up at this point
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                                            >Since he did not have to deal with her any more, Peachy's father breathed a sigh of relief
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                                            >But he still worried...
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                                            >It made Dad and the whole family was proud when Peachy returned and announced she already had a job
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                                            >She'd met some business ponies in Manehattan who always needed new entry level graduates in her field
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                                            >Maybe her world tour had taught Peachy some maturity
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                                            >Maybe some of her detrimental attitudes were being replaced
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                                            >In truth Peachy had spent the whole year partying
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                                            >Griffonstone, Mt Arris, Yakyakistan...
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                                            >She wasn't there to see the arts and the beautiful scenery
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                                            >It was just by pure dumb luck that she was at a rave in Manehattan with those office ponies
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                                            >They were not bosses either, as she led the family to believe
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                                            >They were just entry-level wage slaves like she would be
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                                            >But a job interview is still valuable
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                                            >Maybe she was finally getting better?
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                                            >Sprite got the job
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                                            >A big company with room to be promoted
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                                            >Bottom of the ladder now but the pay was liveable
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                                            >She could afford her first apartment
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                                            >And a lot of drinks
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                                            >Nights out at the club with her friends
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                                            >Nights that resulted in hangovers
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                                            >And those resulted in sick days
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                                            >More than she should have taken
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                                            >But every letter home sounded great
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                                            >Making money, staying responsible, replacing detrimental attitudes.
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                                            >Total lies.
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                                            >But she was a grown mare now, with a job and a place of her own
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                                            >It's not like any pony was going to spank her for taking too many sick days.
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                                            >One dark and stormy night Peachy's father was at home in Fillydelphia
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                                            >Reading one of her encouraging letters
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                                            >His youngest was finally doing well
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                                            >A relief...he thought she...
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                                            [KNOCK] [KNOCK]
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                                            >It was a surprise to hear any pony at the door at this late hour
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                                            >Peachy's father checked the peep-hole carefully and then swung the door open
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                                            "By Celestia...what's wrong?"
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                                            >Peachy Sprite was there
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                                            >Soaking wet in the rain
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                                            >Still obviously crying
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                                            "Dad...I really messed up!"
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                                            >His heart sank
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                                            "Alright, first thing let's get you inside."
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                                            >Wrapped in a blanket, with a warm cup of tea
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                                            >Sprite confessed the truth;
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                                            "I've taken double my allowable sick days.
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                                            "I'm behind on my rent.
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                                            "I've gained 2 inches on my waistline.
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                                            "and last weekend, I drank too much at a company party and flirted with the Boss'es husband."
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                                            >Her father groaned
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                                            >Was this ever gonna end? Was she ever gonna get better?
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                                            "Dad..."
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                                            >Oh, no, she's not gonna ask me that
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                                            "Do you remember what you used to do?
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                                            "When I got out of control as a kid?"
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                                            >He shook his head.
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                                            >He thought he would never have to do this,
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                                            >But Peachy Swift's father looked her in the face and flatly said;
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                                            "No."
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                                            >Peachy was shocked
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                                            >She knew Dad didn't like to do this,
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                                            >he felt she was too old.
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                                            >He was right of course.
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                                            "Dad, please, I know it's super-weird, but this is important!
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                                            "I'm gonna lose the job! I just know it!"
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                                            >But her father shook his head
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                                            >He'd had enough
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                                            "Absolutely not and NEVER again!
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                                            "Peachy, I can't keep solving your problems with a spanking paddle!
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                                            "You are a grown mare.
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                                            "I know you can be mature and handle your business because you do it perfectly...for the first few weeks after I've spanked you.
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                                            "But we always come back to this, which means it didn't work."
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                                            >Sprite did not expect such a flat refusal
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                                            "But Dad, it's just this once...one time and I'll get my shit together, please!"
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                                            >Sadly, he turned his begging daughter down
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                                            "Sweetie...if you said the same thing to me about a drink, or pills I would bring you straight to the hospital.
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                                            "Is this an addiction with you? Is it a dependency?
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                                            "It doesn't matter, I'm not doing it anymore."
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                                            >Peachy begged him, but Dad held his ground
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                                            "I will always love and support you in any way I can.
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                                            "But you're a mare now and need to regulate your behavior yourself.
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                                            "or else I'm scared that your detrimental attitude is going to ruin you."
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                                            >She had to be at work in Manehattan the next morning
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                                            >So Dad rode the late-night train with her
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                                            >Missed a day of his own work back in Fillydelphia
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                                            >He found out that she wasn't as close to being fired as she thought
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                                            >But she wasn't getting a promotion with all the rest of the group who hired on at the same time as her either.
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                                            >He sorted things out with her landlord
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                                            >Worked out a payment schedule that would have her caught up in a few months
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                                            >Situation stabilized, Dad kissed her on the cheek and wished her luck
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                                            >But his answer was firm as he boarded his train
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                                            "I'll always be here to help, but I'm done correcting your behavior.
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                                            "It's up to you now to correct your...
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                                            >You get it by now.
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                                            >Those first few weeks after Dad left were miserable
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                                            >Peachy Sprite was walking on eggshells
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                                            >Afraid to slip up at work and lose her job
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                                            >Afraid to risk any fun in case things got wild and out of control
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                                            >Things were so much easier when Dad could make it all better
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                                            >By making things temporarily so much worse!
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                                            >On her way home Peachy passed a shop
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                                            >It was a sex shop
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                                            >Peachy's apartment was not in the nicest neighborhood
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                                            >She had been inside before, with her drunk friends
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                                            >They'd been having fun
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                                            >They all had a good laugh at the dildos and leather gear
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                                            >Bought a few tubes of sex lube and some dirty magazines, but nothing else
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                                            >It was something else that Peachy kept thinking about.
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                                            >Paddles
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                                            >Apparently a big seller, the store had lots of them
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                                            >Big, little, thick, thin
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                                            >Enchanted and budget choices
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                                            >Peachy thought about them a lot but never had the nerve to go inside
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                                            >Until this day...
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                                            >A door chime announced her arrival, but Peachy still said;
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                                            "Hello?"
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                                            >She was greeted by a cheerful clerk filly about her age
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                                            "Hi there, welcome to The Lovers' Stable.
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                                            "I don't think I've seen you before. I'm Thistle Sting, how can I help you?"
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                                            >Sprite took a great, big, deep, mighty breath...
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                                            >and then whispered
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                                            "Can I look at your paddles?"
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                                            >The clerk gave her a smile and replied
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                                            "Ooo, some pony's been a bad filly?"
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                                            >Peachy blushed and confessed
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                                            "You could say that."
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                                            "Well we have lots of great choices, from budget to unicorn enchanted."
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                                            >Thistle Sting showed her a selection of regular but very nicely made paddles in the 20 bit price range
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                                            >That was really what Peachy was hoping to spend
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                                            "Now these are made by a traditional craftstallion in a nearby town
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                                            "He has the cutest colt apprentice, I love it when they come to deliver our order.
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                                            "But I think the poor little guy got a spanking of his own recently, he seemed awfully squirmy last visit.
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                                            "I wonder if he gets it with the very paddles he helps make? Ohhh, wouldn't that be awful!"
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                                            >While Thistle babbled, Peachy looked over her choices
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                                            >They all scared the fur off her
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                                            >Wielded by a stern daddy any of these would keep her on the right path
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                                            >But she didn't have a daddy willing to do it
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                                            >That meant she'd have to spend a bit more
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                                            "I think I need an enchanted one."
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                                            >Thistle gave her a sympathetic look
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                                            "No Very Special Somepony?"
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                                            >Well, she'd had lots
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                                            >None of them were all that special
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                                            "Okay, these all levitate and spank on their own.
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                                            "But the cheaper enchanted ones cost at least a hundred bits."
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                                            >Peachy gasped
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                                            342.
                                            >This was what she needed but at 5 times what she wanted to spend
 - 
                                            343.
                                            >Already on a restricted budget because of her rent embarrassment, this was a stretch
 - 
                                            344.
                                            
 - 
                                            345.
                                            "How do they work?"
 - 
                                            346.
                                            >Thistle looked overwhelmed and told her;
 - 
                                            347.
                                            "That would take an hour. They're all different. What do you need?"
 - 
                                            348.
                                            >Her customer seemed embarrassed to answer
 - 
                                            349.
                                            >She reconsidered her sales approach and said
 - 
                                            350.
                                            "We started at the bottom and moved up.
 - 
                                            351.
                                            "Let me show you the Top-of-the Line, our best paddle.
 - 
                                            352.
                                            "Then we can find something that's right for you in-between, right?"
 - 
                                            353.
                                            >Sounds reasonable
 - 
                                            354.
                                            "This is The Grande..."
 - 
                                            355.
                                            >Thistle drew a cardboard box out from under the counter and opened the lid
 - 
                                            356.
                                            >It was a beautiful slab of wood
 - 
                                            357.
                                            >Rich, tightly spaced wood grain from old growth forest
 - 
                                            358.
                                            "Once you pre-set some parameters this thing can actually calculate how many spanks you get based on how naughty you were."
 - 
                                            359.
                                            >Peachy Sprite almost jumped when she heard that
 - 
                                            360.
                                            "Ohmygosh that's EXACTLY what I need!"
 - 
                                            361.
                                            >She felt kinda dorky for getting that excited in a sex shop
 - 
                                            362.
                                            "I mean...please,,,tell me more..."
 - 
                                            363.
                                            
 - 
                                            364.
                                            >Thistle Sting cringed a little but went on...
 - 
                                            365.
                                            "There are 7 parameters to set, based on the Seven Deadly Sins."
 - 
                                            366.
                                            >Yeah, they got those in Horsie World too
 - 
                                            367.
                                            >Don't overthink this
 - 
                                            368.
                                            "So lets say your coltfriend is a couch potato who eats all the ice cream in the apartment..."
 - 
                                            369.
                                            >Dastardly!
 - 
                                            370.
                                            "You just crank up the importance setting on Sloth and Gluttony and WHAM!"
 - 
                                            371.
                                            >Peachy flinched when Thistle banged her hoof on the counter
 - 
                                            372.
                                            "He's gonna wish he saved some ice cream for his sore rear end."
 - 
                                            373.
                                            >And alternately
 - 
                                            374.
                                            "But let's say he's a nice colt who just lost his temper when another stallion was rude to you in line for a movie,
 - 
                                            375.
                                            "He still deserves a spanking for punching that other stallion,
 - 
                                            376.
                                            "But not a bad one, since he was defending my honor."
 - 
                                            377.
                                            >That slip told Peachy that the clerk was describing incidents from her own dating life
 - 
                                            378.
                                            >She wondered if Thistle ever borrowed the Grande from work
 - 
                                            379.
                                            "So you turn Wrath down low, and he doesn't get it so bad.
 - 
                                            380.
                                            "There's also settings for Lust, Pride, Envy and Greed.
 - 
                                            381.
                                            "Pretty much covers most naughtiness, but there's an open eighth slot for unexpected circumstances.
 - 
                                            382.
                                            "You gotta ask my boss how to set that one though...the instructions are kinda wonky."
 - 
                                            383.
                                            
 - 
                                            384.
                                            >Peachy trembled at the thought of this thing devastating her heinie
 - 
                                            385.
                                            >But it was everything she needed
 - 
                                            386.
                                            "How much is it?"
 - 
                                            387.
                                            
 - 
                                            388.
                                            >Thistle drew the box back and reminded her
 - 
                                            389.
                                            "I was just showing you what the Top-of-the-Line is!
 - 
                                            390.
                                            "This is a tool for professional leather dominaTrixies and sex clubs.
 - 
                                            391.
                                            "Don't fall in love...it costs 199.99 bits."
 - 
                                            392.
                                            >Whoa...let's look at something cheaper
 - 
                                            393.
                                            >But after seeing the Grande, none of the others have what she needs
 - 
                                            394.
                                            
 - 
                                            395.
                                            "Thistle, I don't enjoy spankings"
 - 
                                            396.
                                            >she confessed
 - 
                                            397.
                                            >The clerk looked confused and said
 - 
                                            398.
                                            "We've got lots of nice dildos too..."
 - 
                                            399.
                                            
 - 
                                            400.
                                            "I'm really messing up my life.
 - 
                                            401.
                                            "For years I blamed my Mom or my siblings who never let me learn responsibility
 - 
                                            402.
                                            "But I'm out of ponies to blame. This is my problem now.
 - 
                                            403.
                                            "Know who deserves none of the blame?
 - 
                                            404.
                                            "My Dad.
 - 
                                            405.
                                            "He's tried his whole life to help me get my shit together.
 - 
                                            406.
                                            "I'm so tired of him being disappointed in me."
 - 
                                            407.
                                            
 - 
                                            408.
                                            >Thistle Sting seldom had customers open up like this to her
 - 
                                            409.
                                            >But she felt like Peachy was a friend in need
 - 
                                            410.
                                            "I'm really sorry...
 - 
                                            411.
                                            "I could give you my employee discount on any other item but The Grande is a special order."
 - 
                                            412.
                                            >Peachy looked in her purse
 - 
                                            413.
                                            >The annual Monsters of Griffon Rock tour was coming to Manehattan soon
 - 
                                            414.
                                            >She had money for her ticket set aside
 - 
                                            415.
                                            >26 bands...3 days...it was gonna be awesome...she was gonna get so hammered drunk
 - 
                                            416.
                                            >But Peachy took a deep breath
 - 
                                            417.
                                            "What's the total with tax?"
 - 
                                            418.
                                            >Thistle couldn't believe it but she did the math
 - 
                                            419.
                                            "Ummm, 217.98 bits."
 - 
                                            420.
                                            >The reckless filly whimpered and made her decision
 - 
                                            421.
                                            >In one of the first self disciplined moments of her life she chose the Grande over a concert that was sure to be a blast.
 - 
                                            422.
                                            
 - 
                                            423.
                                            "Oh my gosh, seriously?"
 - 
                                            424.
                                            >Thistle couldn't believe it when Sprite began counting out her money
 - 
                                            425.
                                            "If this doesn't work can I bring it back?"
 - 
                                            426.
                                            
 - 
                                            427.
                                            "Doesn't work?"
 - 
                                            428.
                                            >Thistle was confused
 - 
                                            429.
                                            "Unless you've got a cast iron rear-end I can safely say it's gonna work."
 - 
                                            430.
                                            >Peachy shook her head
 - 
                                            431.
                                            "I just mean, what if I don't have the nerve?
 - 
                                            432.
                                            "What if it doesn't even work for...what I need?"
 - 
                                            433.
                                            
 - 
                                            434.
                                            >Behind the counter, Thistle Sting looked a little worried
 - 
                                            435.
                                            "This is a sex shop...ponies don't typically like to buy the things we sell after they've been used."
 - 
                                            436.
                                            >taking a deep breath
 - 
                                            437.
                                            "and my Boss will kill me if I sell an expensive item then you just bring it back a month from now."
 - 
                                            438.
                                            "I can maybe give you...one day?"
 - 
                                            439.
                                            
 - 
                                            440.
                                            >Peachy Sprite gulped hard
 - 
                                            441.
                                            >She had planned on keeping the scary thing ready until she needed it
 - 
                                            442.
                                            >Maybe the fear of knowing it was in the apartment would even help her impulse control
 - 
                                            443.
                                            >This time limit meant she would have to test it and make her decision tonight.
 - 
                                            444.
                                            
 - 
                                            445.
                                            "Eeeeeeekkkk...ring it up quick before I can change my mind!"
 - 
                                            446.
                                            >Thistle was still surprised this filly who didn't enjoy spankings just bought the most expensive paddle in the shop
 - 
                                            447.
                                            >She worried that this might be a mistake that got her into trouble with her Boss
 - 
                                            448.
                                            >But she rang up the purchase as requested
 - 
                                            449.
                                            "Would you like to donate 3 bits to the Equestrian Nature Fund?"
 - 
                                            450.
                                            >Peachy growled
 - 
                                            451.
                                            >She was already cutting her budget razor thin
 - 
                                            452.
                                            >But she was trying to be a good girl from now on
 - 
                                            453.
                                            "Yeah...3 bits for the %&#%+ bunnies..."
 - 
                                            454.
                                            >Thistle blushed and told her;
 - 
                                            455.
                                            "Okay, that comes to 220.98."
 - 
                                            456.
                                            >This was gonna be a week of ramen noodles until next payday
 - 
                                            457.
                                            >'Last Chance' marked down bread and vegetables at the market
 - 
                                            458.
                                            
 - 
                                            459.
                                            "Sooo, how do I get the parameters set?"
 - 
                                            460.
                                            >Thistle Sting packed everything up in the cardboard box and told her
 - 
                                            461.
                                            "Instructions are right inside.
 - 
                                            462.
                                            "You set the range number for each Deadly Sin
 - 
                                            463.
                                            "Then dial in how important you think each category is.
 - 
                                            464.
                                            "Plus there's a setting for increasing penalty for repeat offense...
 - 
                                            465.
                                            "And a switch that doubles the punishment if it catches you lying."
 - 
                                            466.
                                            >Eerily similar to Dad's rules...
 - 
                                            467.
                                            "It will just take you a few minutes to set it all up at home. You won't need any magic."
 - 
                                            468.
                                            
 - 
                                            469.
                                            >Peachy stuck out her bottom lip and pouted a bit
 - 
                                            470.
                                            "But if I get to choose the spanking I get it's not much of a punishment, is it?"
 - 
                                            471.
                                            >Thistle had an idea for this;
 - 
                                            472.
                                            "Just get a pony who knows you really well to set it for you...then lock the settings cover so you can never see."
 - 
                                            473.
                                            
 - 
                                            474.
                                            "But I don't have any pony like that..."
 - 
                                            475.
                                            >No colt friend
 - 
                                            476.
                                            >Her party friends wouldn't understand
 - 
                                            477.
                                            >Dad unwilling to do it
 - 
                                            478.
                                            >She would DIE of humiliation if anybody at work found out
 - 
                                            479.
                                            "Could you do it for me?"
 - 
                                            480.
                                            
 - 
                                            481.
                                            >Thistle's face sank
 - 
                                            482.
                                            "Awww, that's a lot of extra work and it's almost my break time!
 - 
                                            483.
                                            >But Peachy's needy whimper made her concede that she'd spend that break struggling with complicated magical paddle settings
 - 
                                            484.
                                            "Am I gonna get anything out of this?"
 - 
                                            485.
                                            >Her customer blushed and emptied out the last few pennies from her purse
 - 
                                            486.
                                            >It wasn't even enough for a stingy tip
 - 
                                            487.
                                            >Thistle groaned and accepted that she'd be doing this favor in the name of Friendship.
 - 
                                            488.
                                            
 - 
                                            489.
                                            >When Sprite got home she didn't open the cardboard box
 - 
                                            490.
                                            >Not right away
 - 
                                            491.
                                            >She boiled some noodles for dinner
 - 
                                            492.
                                            >Wasn't kidding about that ramen
 - 
                                            493.
                                            >But she couldn't eat
 - 
                                            494.
                                            >She was too nervous about what had to happen tonight
 - 
                                            495.
                                            
 - 
                                            496.
                                            "No time like the present."
 - 
                                            497.
                                            >At least she lived on the top floor...no upstairs neighbors
 - 
                                            498.
                                            >The next door apartment was vacant
 - 
                                            499.
                                            >And the old mare a floor down was near deaf
 - 
                                            500.
                                            >If she screamed like she always did as a foal, at least the police would not be called
 - 
                                            501.
                                            
 - 
                                            502.
                                            >She removed The Grande from its box
 - 
                                            503.
                                            >It was the first time she actually held it
 - 
                                            504.
                                            >She was impressed by its lightness, but unyielding rigidity
 - 
                                            505.
                                            "Let's try this."
 - 
                                            506.
                                            >The paddle could only communicate via a magical slab of slate
 - 
                                            507.
                                            >A little 2x4 inch chalkboard to write down confessions on
 - 
                                            508.
                                            >Peachy looked across the room at her half-finished bowl of noodles
 - 
                                            509.
                                            "Here goes..."
 - 
                                            510.
                                            >and she wrote on the chalk board;
 - 
                                            511.
                                            "did not finish my dinner"
 - 
                                            512.
                                            >and waited for the response
 - 
                                            513.
                                            >Nothing
 - 
                                            514.
                                            >The little jewels on the side indicating Greed and Gluttony flickered but nothing else happened
 - 
                                            515.
                                            "Was that not bad enough?
 - 
                                            516.
                                            "Two hundred and twenty bits and you won't work because you don't think I was naughty enough!?"
 - 
                                            517.
                                            >But she felt silly talking to a piece of wood.
 - 
                                            518.
                                            >She tried again
 - 
                                            519.
                                            >Since she had only finished half her noodles, Peachy was still hungry and had food on the brain
 - 
                                            520.
                                            >So she could only think of food-related crimes to confess
 - 
                                            521.
                                            >She wrote down;
 - 
                                            522.
                                            "Had a greasy hayburger for lunch instead of a salad."
 - 
                                            523.
                                            >This time Gluttony glowed brighter, but nothing from Greed
 - 
                                            524.
                                            >Sloth flickered a little though
 - 
                                            525.
                                            "So it takes combo's into account"
 - 
                                            526.
                                            >The chalk message disappeared as the paddle calculated her punishment
 - 
                                            527.
                                            "10 spanks."
 - 
                                            528.
                                            
 - 
                                            529.
                                            >Peachy took a deep breath
 - 
                                            530.
                                            "Okay, here goes."
 - 
                                            531.
                                            >She laid herself down across the arm of her ratty old couch
 - 
                                            532.
                                            >Her hooves could not touch the ground
 - 
                                            533.
                                            >She hugged her throw pillows and squeaked out...
 - 
                                            534.
                                            "Begin!"
 - 
                                            535.
                                            
 - 
                                            536.
                                            >At the pre-set command word
 - 
                                            537.
                                            >(Thistle let Peachy pick from 4)
 - 
                                            538.
                                            >the wooden terror floated over her ominously, taking position behind her
 - 
                                            539.
                                            >Shivering with nervous energy, Peachy expected a lecture
 - 
                                            540.
                                            
 - 
                                            541.
                                            >She got a surprisingly hard crack across the rear instead
 - 
                                            542.
                                            >Not the worst she'd ever gotten
 - 
                                            543.
                                            >But from just one whack she knew the paddle meant business
 - 
                                            544.
                                            
 - 
                                            545.
                                            >Peachy twisted and whimpered as her new purchase delivered its first service
 - 
                                            546.
                                            "Wow! Does that sting!"
 - 
                                            547.
                                            >Eight, nine and ten whacks couldn't come soon enough.
 - 
                                            548.
                                            >When it was finished, Peachy was breathing hard and wiping her eyes
 - 
                                            549.
                                            >A good first test
 - 
                                            550.
                                            >One thing she knew was; she didn't want a greasy hayburger for lunch tomorrow
 - 
                                            551.
                                            
 - 
                                            552.
                                            >Peachy took a minute to catch her breath
 - 
                                            553.
                                            >She finished her noodles and put a cold towel on her stingy rear
 - 
                                            554.
                                            >It didn't quite need ice yet
 - 
                                            555.
                                            
 - 
                                            556.
                                            >Yet.
 - 
                                            557.
                                            >Peachy knew she had to push further before she was sure about this
 - 
                                            558.
                                            >Thistle Sting had stuck her neck out
 - 
                                            559.
                                            >She had to either decide to keep it
 - 
                                            560.
                                            >or get it back to the shop before Thistle's boss noticed it missing.
 - 
                                            561.
                                            >She had to go harder.
 - 
                                            562.
                                            
 - 
                                            563.
                                            >Sprite wasn't ready for a full-on butt busting yet,
 - 
                                            564.
                                            >nor did she believe she deserved one tonight,
 - 
                                            565.
                                            >but wanted to explore some of the other settings of the paddle
 - 
                                            566.
                                            "What if the number of burgers was different?"
 - 
                                            567.
                                            
 - 
                                            568.
                                            >Time for a second round
 - 
                                            569.
                                            >Peachy got herself into position
 - 
                                            570.
                                            >Head down, rear up
 - 
                                            571.
                                            >Back hooves kicking helplessly above the floor boards
 - 
                                            572.
                                            >This time she scratched on the slate
 - 
                                            573.
                                            "I had three greasy hayburgers for lunch instead of a salad."
 - 
                                            574.
                                            >That felt like a good test
 - 
                                            575.
                                            >After all it was true
 - 
                                            576.
                                            >The punishment for 3 might be a little more than for one
 - 
                                            577.
                                            >But the main crime was giving in to temptation...so why should 3 be much worse than 1?
 - 
                                            578.
                                            
 - 
                                            579.
                                            >The enchantment made its cruel calculus.
 - 
                                            580.
                                            >Her chalk scratches disappeared
 - 
                                            581.
                                            >A new sentence appeared in their place.
 - 
                                            582.
                                            >Peachy's eyes grew wide with surprise as she read along;
 - 
                                            583.
                                            "Thirty spanks? Awww, man!"
 - 
                                            584.
                                            >She expected half that
 - 
                                            585.
                                            >But what she saw next horrified her
 - 
                                            586.
                                            "Doubled FOR LYING!?"
 - 
                                            587.
                                            >She struggled to get out of the way before the paddle started its horrible work
 - 
                                            588.
                                            "Don't say begin...don't say begin...don't say...
 - 
                                            589.
                                            >Yeah
 - 
                                            590.
                                            >She actually said that out loud in her panic
 - 
                                            591.
                                            >So 'Begin' is exactly what the paddle did
 - 
                                            592.
                                            
 - 
                                            593.
                                            [WHACK] [WHACK] [WHACK]
 - 
                                            594.
                                            >Peachy Sprite shrieked as she tried to remember the safe word that would halt the punishment
 - 
                                            595.
                                            "Why didn't I choose something easier to remember! Whhhaaaahhhh!"
 - 
                                            596.
                                            >Unable to escape she kicked and cried like a foal
 - 
                                            597.
                                            >It was harder this time...so much more painful
 - 
                                            598.
                                            >Through her tears and wailing Peachy remembered what Thistle Sting had said about the settings
 - 
                                            599.
                                            >This must count as a repeat offense
 - 
                                            600.
                                            "WHHhhhhaaaaAAAAHHHhhhhhooooaaaaAAWW!
 - 
                                            601.
                                            >The young mare bawled, as she could not escape without exposing the tender back of her legs to the worst of it
 - 
                                            602.
                                            >60 hard strokes!
 - 
                                            603.
                                            >It was so much more than Peachy wanted to try on the first day
 - 
                                            604.
                                            >But she had no choice now, the paddle had no mind of its own and was only running a magical program
 - 
                                            605.
                                            "I PAID TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE BITS FOR THIIIIIIISSSSSsssssss!"
 - 
                                            606.
                                            >She cried at the top of her lungs.
 - 
                                            607.
                                            >Lucky she had no neighbors that would complain.
 - 
                                            608.
                                            
 - 
                                            609.
                                            >This magical wooden terror did a mighty job
 - 
                                            610.
                                            >It was heavier and harder than anything her father had ever spanked her with
 - 
                                            611.
                                            >But she was a bigger girl now
 - 
                                            612.
                                            >And her grown mare tushie was burning with pain as badly as any little filly tanning she'd ever experienced.
 - 
                                            613.
                                            
 - 
                                            614.
                                            "OOooowwWWW! Ow! OW, Ow! Please stop, pleeeaaasseeee..."
 - 
                                            615.
                                            >She was begging a plank of wood for mercy
 - 
                                            616.
                                            >But Peachy didn't know what else to do
 - 
                                            617.
                                            >Never that attentive about such things, she'd lost count in the first few whacks
 - 
                                            618.
                                            >As the crying filly kicked and wiggled in a desperate effort to endure the pain, she had no idea if she had 5 or 55 spanks left to go
 - 
                                            619.
                                            >Even ONE was too many
 - 
                                            620.
                                            
 - 
                                            621.
                                            >It was too much, Peachy had to escape
 - 
                                            622.
                                            "Please stop, please stop! I can't take it!"
 - 
                                            623.
                                            >But the enchanted paddle did not posses pity for her to appeal to
 - 
                                            624.
                                            >She yanked at the couch cushions, trying to drag herself out of reach
 - 
                                            625.
                                            >Hopefully the paddle would not chase her!
 - 
                                            626.
                                            >Peachy dug her hooves into the gaps between the cushions, looking for grip
 - 
                                            627.
                                            >But all she did was dislodge them, and when one fell all 3 followed, tumbling to the floor
 - 
                                            628.
                                            >These cushions had been the surface Peachy was leaning on
 - 
                                            629.
                                            >With their loss, her upper body fell forward and down, 4 more inches
 - 
                                            630.
                                            "WHHHHAAAAHHH NNNOOoooooo!"
 - 
                                            631.
                                            >This pushed her rear-end up higher, and at a sharper angle
 - 
                                            632.
                                            >The tender bits at the crease between rump and leg were painfully exposed
 - 
                                            633.
                                            >Worst, the paddle adjusted to her new position
 - 
                                            634.
                                            >It now spanked from almost directly above
 - 
                                            635.
                                            >The added help from gravity might not have added much impact if tested in a laboratory
 - 
                                            636.
                                            >But Peachy Sprite's bottom absolutely noticed the difference
 - 
                                            637.
                                            
 - 
                                            638.
                                            "Bwwwhhhaaaahhh, please, please, please be over soon!"
 - 
                                            639.
                                            >She had completely lost track of how many she'd endured and forgotten how many she was supposed to get
 - 
                                            640.
                                            >For all she knew the paddle had malfunctioned hours ago and she was trapped in a timeless existence of agony
 - 
                                            641.
                                            >Peachy bawled like she did when she'd been a mischievous filly, finally forced to pay the price over Dad's knee
 - 
                                            642.
                                            >She was flooded with the same feelings
 - 
                                            643.
                                            >Peachy hated this...she wanted more than anything for it to be over
 - 
                                            644.
                                            >Yet she felt like this was entirely her fault
 - 
                                            645.
                                            >Nobody was persecuting her
 - 
                                            646.
                                            >No pony was responsible for this except herself
 - 
                                            647.
                                            >And her detrimental attitude.
 - 
                                            648.
                                            
 - 
                                            649.
                                            >It went on for quite some time.
 - 
                                            650.
                                            >As Peachy learned from re-reading the instructions later, the Grande did not count a spank unless good, firm (painful) contact was made
 - 
                                            651.
                                            >Spanks that did not hit cleanly did not count
 - 
                                            652.
                                            >and many of those had hurt the worst!
 - 
                                            653.
                                            >Peachy had done herself no favors by kicking and squirming.
 - 
                                            654.
                                            >There was no official count but she had likely increased her number of spanks to 80 rather than the 60 she'd been condemned to
 - 
                                            655.
                                            
 - 
                                            656.
                                            >For all the pain and crying the ending was anti-climactic
 - 
                                            657.
                                            >Dad always slowed down and lectured at the end
 - 
                                            658.
                                            >If the crime was bad enough to earn a 'grand finale', this is when it obviously happened
 - 
                                            659.
                                            >But for all its fancy features the Grande did not have a setting for a big finish.
 - 
                                            660.
                                            >It just stopped.
 - 
                                            661.
                                            
 - 
                                            662.
                                            >Bawling Peachy took a few moments to realize she wasn't being spanked anymore.
 - 
                                            663.
                                            >Then, after wiping her muzzle she asked timidly;
 - 
                                            664.
                                            "Finished?"
 - 
                                            665.
                                            >The paddle took that as a command rather than a question.
 - 
                                            666.
                                            >It floated down and came to rest on the nearest flat surface.
 - 
                                            667.
                                            
 - 
                                            668.
                                            >Peachy scrambled away from the paddle at first
 - 
                                            669.
                                            >Her rump still throbbed and burned
 - 
                                            670.
                                            >She was still freely weeping from the painful ordeal.
 - 
                                            671.
                                            >She didn't even want to go near that thing for a while.
 - 
                                            672.
                                            
 - 
                                            673.
                                            >What she did want was a bag of frozen peas for her poor heinie
 - 
                                            674.
                                            >Looking in the ice box she cursed
 - 
                                            675.
                                            "Of course I don't have anything healthy like that."
 - 
                                            676.
                                            
 - 
                                            677.
                                            >Peachy didn't go near the paddle for the rest of the night
 - 
                                            678.
                                            >but when payday came she spent her money on some healthy groceries instead of pizza and hayburgers
 - 
                                            679.
                                            >She also got a few bags of frozen peas
 - 
                                            680.
                                            >A necessity as she intended to use the Grande again
 - 
                                            681.
                                            
 - 
                                            682.
                                            >Peachy began taking notes throughout her day
 - 
                                            683.
                                            >Behaviors and attitudes she knew were detrimental
 - 
                                            684.
                                            Flirted with a colt on the elevator even though I knew he was married.
 - 
                                            685.
                                            >Stuff at work
 - 
                                            686.
                                            Did not confess to a mathematical error that took my office 4 hours to track down and fix
 - 
                                            687.
                                            >To be fair Sprite did not know it was her mistake until it was found
 - 
                                            688.
                                            >but she could have owned up to it then instead of letting it remain a mystery and sharing the blame around
 - 
                                            689.
                                            >Even at lunch she critiqued her own behavior
 - 
                                            690.
                                            Enjoyed to a musician in the park for a half hour but then left without giving him a tip
 - 
                                            691.
                                            >She honestly felt guilty about that one
 - 
                                            692.
                                            
 - 
                                            693.
                                            >Luckily all those notes were recorded on different days
 - 
                                            694.
                                            >because the paddle held her to account for all of them.
 - 
                                            695.
                                            >For the stallion in the elevator she got 20 sharp whacks for Lust and 10 more for Envy
 - 
                                            696.
                                            "Oow! Oow! Oow! I'm sorrrrryyy!
 - 
                                            697.
                                            "I wasn't gonna do anything, OW! his breath was horrible!"
 - 
                                            698.
                                            >Her math error got her 15 spanks for sloth
 - 
                                            699.
                                            >She hadn't checked her computations twice, clearly
 - 
                                            700.
                                            >Then another 30 for pride in not admitting her mistake
 - 
                                            701.
                                            "Please, please stop! Owwwie! I won't be such a chicken OW! next time!"
 - 
                                            702.
                                            >She felt lucky not to have triggered the lie detector this time
 - 
                                            703.
                                            >For her offense against the musician, however, the paddle gave her a sound butt blistering
 - 
                                            704.
                                            >Lust and Wrath were the only ones with nothing to say
 - 
                                            705.
                                            >All the other Deadly Sins had input that evening
 - 
                                            706.
                                            "WHHHHAAaaahhhHHH!
 - 
                                            707.
                                            "I'm sorrryyy! I'll go back and tip him tomorOW, OW, OW!"
 - 
                                            708.
                                            >And she did; although she fibbed to him and said she'd been out of cash the day before
 - 
                                            709.
                                            >Peachy didn't tell the paddle about that one
 - 
                                            710.
                                            >During her post-spanking cool down period;
 - 
                                            711.
                                            >as she had a good cry and soothed her sizzling bottom with a bag of frozen peas
 - 
                                            712.
                                            >her hoarse voice with a healthy juice popsicle instead of a half-gallon of ice cream
 - 
                                            713.
                                            >Peachy came to the revelation that the Grande had been created and enchanted by craftsponies
 - 
                                            714.
                                            >As such it took particular umbrage at an offense to a fellow artist
 - 
                                            715.
                                            >Good thing to remember.
 - 
                                            716.
                                            
 - 
                                            717.
                                            >For a few weeks Peachy Sprite held the belief that the paddle somehow magically "knew" when she was lying
 - 
                                            718.
                                            >She finally realized this was silly
 - 
                                            719.
                                            >The paddle was a piece of wood brought to 'life' by a magical spell
 - 
                                            720.
                                            >It had no mind or free will
 - 
                                            721.
                                            >The only reason it had 'known' she lied about the number of hayburgers that first time was because she foolishly told it a made up number first then exposed her lie by telling the truth next
 - 
                                            722.
                                            
 - 
                                            723.
                                            >She tested the theory one night when she'd been a bit lazy at work
 - 
                                            724.
                                            >Laying over the couch she had grown to fear
 - 
                                            725.
                                            >All cushions now securely locked in place
 - 
                                            726.
                                            >Peachy wrote her sin on the slate
 - 
                                            727.
                                            "Told the Boss I couldn't stay late because my cat was sick."
 - 
                                            728.
                                            
 - 
                                            729.
                                            >In a few moments her relatively mild sentence replaced the chalk letters on the tablet
 - 
                                            730.
                                            >Only 5 for Sloth
 - 
                                            731.
                                            >Apparently the unicorn who enchanted this had a soft spot for cats
 - 
                                            732.
                                            >Then Peachy took a deep breath and tried Part 2 of her experiment
 - 
                                            733.
                                            "I don't even have a cat."
 - 
                                            734.
                                            >Five smacks, double for lying, is still not awful
 - 
                                            735.
                                            >But then...
 - 
                                            736.
                                            "40 FOR...WRATH? What the fuck!?"
 - 
                                            737.
                                            >But it was too late at that point and poor Peachy had to howl her way through 50 painful spanks
 - 
                                            738.
                                            "Whhhaaa! I don't even understand this one!
 - 
                                            739.
                                            "Whhhhyyyyy didn't I read the instructions mo, OW OW Owwhhhaa!!"
 - 
                                            740.
                                            
 - 
                                            741.
                                            >Another bag of peas, another popsicle
 - 
                                            742.
                                            >Another good read of the full instruction sheet
 - 
                                            743.
                                            "Certain important crimes do not easily fit into the 7 categories are assigned at the digression of the enchanting Wizard."
 - 
                                            744.
                                            >Yeah, they like to be called Wizards so they can charge more
 - 
                                            745.
                                            "Incomplete list here."
 - 
                                            746.
                                            >Peachy scanned the list under Wrath and quickly found Animal Cruelty
 - 
                                            747.
                                            >She certainly agreed with that and felt that the punishment should be done with something a little more important than a sex toy
 - 
                                            748.
                                            >But crying wolf over a non-existent sick cat seemed like a stretch
 - 
                                            749.
                                            >There was no pony to complain to though
 - 
                                            750.
                                            >She was using a sex toy to change her lifetime pattern of behavior
 - 
                                            751.
                                            >Things were bound to get a little weird
 - 
                                            752.
                                            >Just remember never to fuck with cats.
 - 
                                            753.
                                            
 - 
                                            754.
                                            >About 2 months after her purchase, Peachy returned to the shop
 - 
                                            755.
                                            "Welcome to the Lover...oh hi! I recognize you.
 - 
                                            756.
                                            "Please don't say you want to return the Grande...WAY too much time has passed."
 - 
                                            757.
                                            >Peachy had the Grande with her, but she did not intend to return it
 - 
                                            758.
                                            "Hi Thistle Sting!
 - 
                                            759.
                                            "I brought you a coffee 'cause I stiffed you on the tip last time.
 - 
                                            760.
                                            "No, I don't wanna return.
 - 
                                            761.
                                            "In fact, I think I'm ready to have it engraved."
 - 
                                            762.
                                            >The clerk was happy Peachy had remembered her name, and happy for the coffee
 - 
                                            763.
                                            >In time the two would become close friends
 - 
                                            764.
                                            "Great! I can do that right here in the shop
 - 
                                            765.
                                            "Or I can brand the inscription on with a wood burner
 - 
                                            766.
                                            "That's cheaper, but it looks really nice too."
 - 
                                            767.
                                            >Thistle remembered her prior financial pinch
 - 
                                            768.
                                            >But Peachy looked at the slab of wood she both loved and hated
 - 
                                            769.
                                            >Her behavior and attitude really had improved
 - 
                                            770.
                                            >She was healthier, happier
 - 
                                            771.
                                            >and she'd gotten the promotion she'd been passed over for last cycle
 - 
                                            772.
                                            >Best, she didn't have to lie about how well things were going when she wrote a letter home to Mom & Dad
 - 
                                            773.
                                            >He deserved the nice expensive engraving
 - 
                                            774.
                                            >and would be the generic Grande no more.
 - 
                                            775.
                                            
 - 
                                            776.
                                            "I think it's time for a name, Thistle.
 - 
                                            777.
                                            "He's my Detrimental Attitude Destroyer."
 - 
                                            778.
                                            >Thistle Sting cringed and told her.
 - 
                                            779.
                                            "Awww, Peachy, that's WAY too many letters
 - 
                                            780.
                                            "I can only fit three."
 - 
                                            781.
                                            
 - 
                                            782.
                                            >Peachy Sprite was okay with that, although she hadn't planned it this way.
 - 
                                            783.
                                            "Okay, just the initials then."
 - 
                                            784.
                                            >Do I have to spell it out for you?
 - 
                                            785.
                                            >
 - 
                                            786.
                                            >D.A.D.
 - 
                                            787.
                                            
 - 
                                            788.
                                            END
 
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