Welcome to a session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) – this writer’s favorite fantasy. The story takes place in a high school not unlike other high schools. In this high school, however, there are strict rules regarding the toileting behavior of the school’s female students. Those who break the school toilet rules (including the rules against going to the bathroom in your pants) are brought before the TVPC to have their cases heard and their punishment given out if they are guilty. Meetings of the TVPC are called to order at 3:10 PM each school day in the TVPC meeting room – Room 222 of the high school. It should be noted that where this story takes place you need to be 18 in order to enter high school so all persons depicted, even though entirely fictional, are at least 18 years of age.
My name is Arnold Ziffel and I’m chairman of the TVPC. What follows are the summary minutes of the TVPC meeting of February 24, 2012.
Our first case of this afternoon’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) is a shy and quiet blonde-haired freshman named Tia. As she usually does when she appears before the TVPC, the shy and sensitive freshman is already crying as she takes the podium. And as is usually the case when Tia appears before the TVPC, she is charged with messing in her panties. The substantial load in her panties is quite evident by the large round bulge it causes even in her loose fitting jeans. Obviously, she is embarrassed by the load in her panties and it’s hard not to feel sorry for the sweet and painfully shy freshman. But this is her 6th panty-soiling offense of this school year and the time for leniency is long past.
“Again Tia?” I ask her, “Didn’t you just recently finish your punishment from the last one and here you are with yet another panty-soiling?” “You keep telling me that you’re trying to do better, but you still keep going in your panties,” I point out, “But 6 times already this school year is quite shameful.” “When are you going to learn to go in the toilet like a girl your age should?” I ask.
“This is the third time it’s happened in my class alone,” chimes in Miss Johnson, Tia’s English teacher, “And that’s just the times that I’ve caught her at it.” “And who’s to even know how many times she’s done it and didn’t even get caught,” Miss Johnson points out. “Tia just refuses to go in the toilet like she should,” her English teacher tells us, “I’ve tried to give her a girls’ room pass on numerous occasions but she just insists that she doesn’t have to go.” “I could see her just sitting there in class desperately trying to hold it in,” she continues, “But when I suggest that she go to the girls’ room, she refuses and then a little while later it’s usually in her pants.” “I know that some girls have trouble with using the school bathrooms, so I try to help them,” the kindly young teacher adds, “But Tia doesn’t even seem to want my help – She just sits there and does it in her pants.” “I guess it isn’t intentional, because she probably is trying to hold it in when it happens,” Miss Johnson tells us, “But it’s pretty obvious that she’d rather just do it in her pants and clean it up at home than do it in the toilet at school.”
“It wasn’t on purpose – I was trying to hold it in,” Tia mumbles through her tears, “I was trying as hard as I could to hold it in.” “I would never just do it in my pants on purpose – That’s just disgusting,” she argues emphatically, “I hate having messes in my panties – I really hate how that feels.” “Apparently you don’t hate it enough to stop doing it,” I point out, “Apparently you don’t hate it enough to start doing it in the girls’ room instead of your panties.” “I guess we believe you that you’re always trying to hold it in,” I explain, “But the point is that you shouldn’t be – You should be going to the girls’ room instead and taking care of your business in there.” “A few accidents here and there can be expected – especially for a freshman,” I tell her, trying to be a little comforting, “But you don’t seem to go to the girls’ room at all – You don’t seem to be making any attempt to improve your shameful toilet habits.” Upon questioning, Tia admits that she’s never actually done one of her bowel movements in the school girls’ rooms. “I’ve done the other thing in there, but never that,” she admits. She claims that a few times she sat down in the girls’ room intending to do it, but that she just couldn’t actually go. “I just don’t like having other girls around when I do that,” she tells us, “And even when I do have the girls’ room to myself, I’m always worried about other girls coming in while I’m going.” “It’s not just at school,” Tia explains, “I really don’t like to do that in any public bathroom.”
“You’re just going to have to,” I tell the freshman cutie, “You’re just going to have to find a way to go at school when you need to.” Upon further questioning, Tia acknowledges that though she does try to hold it in when she has to go at school and really does hate having those messy loads in her panties, she does indeed feel more comfortable cleaning up her mess at home than using the toilet in the girls’ room at school.”
“I’m afraid that’s going to change, young lady,” I tell her in no uncertain terms, “And I’m afraid that’s going to change right now!” I first sentence the toilet troubled freshman to write 1,000 times, “I will not soil my panties in school again.” Second, I sentence her to both a week of detention and 2 weeks of her 7th period study hall sitting on a toilet in the Main Corridor girls’ room. That’s pretty harsh, but I’m pretty sure she was expecting that. She was expecting that and she still messed in her panties, so I doubt that’s going to be a sufficient deterrent against her doing it again. “I warned you last time that there would be stern consequences if you did it again,” I remind her, “But obviously, you did indeed mess in your panties again.” “So just as obviously, the time for stern consequences is at hand,” I tell her, “This time we’re going to try a different type of punishment – And hopefully, it’s going to be a punishment you’ll think about the next time you need to do a bowel movement in school.”
With that I request that our ace hall and bathroom monitor Mrs. Johns accompany Tia down the hall to the 2nd Floor girls’ room. “Once in the girls’ room with Mrs. Johns, you will proceed to clean up your mess,” I tell her. “You will go into a stall, take the toilet paper, and completely wipe yourself clean,” I specify, “And then you’ll dump the load out of your panties into the toilet and scrub them thoroughly in the sink.” “And make sure that you do a good job cleaning those panties,” I tell the very upset freshman, “Because you’re going to be wearing them to school tomorrow.” Tia is, understandably, horrified at the prospect of having to clean up her accident in the girls’ room at school. She begs me to reconsider. “Please not that!” she pleads, “I won’t mess in my panties again, I promise.” “Maybe you won’t,” I answer optimistically, “After you have to clean up one of your accidents in school, I really hope you’ll finally learn your lesson and you won’t do it again.” “That is, after all, the whole point in punishing you,” I add. But even though I do feel sorry for her, I remain firm in her sentence. This is a punishment that she obviously needs.
It takes a moment for her to compose herself and she finally starts to realize that she is indeed going to have to clean herself up right here in school. She asks about privacy in this process. “Mrs. Johns will have to supervise the entire process,” I explain, “She’ll be right there in the stall with you to make sure that you clean yourself up completely.” “When you use the toilet properly, you get to go in the stall by yourself and have your privacy,” I point out, “When you go in your panties and have to go in there to clean yourself up as punishment, you don’t get that privilege.”
“Hopefully, you’ll learn your lesson this time,” I tell her. “Going in your panties in school and then cleaning it all up at home is no longer an option for you,” I explain, “When you go in your panties in school, you’ll be cleaning it up in school.” “I think you’ll find that it’s a lot easier to just go in the toilet when you need to,” I continue, “But obviously that choice is going to be yours.” Tia is still crying as the ever efficient Mrs. Johns leads her away to the girls’ room to perform the disgusting and humiliating task ahead. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a look of dread on a girl’s face as I see on Tia’s face now. It’s tempting to relent and give the poor girl a break, but I know that she truly deserves the punishment that I’ve assigned and it’s obviously the only way that she’s going to learn her lesson. Hopefully, as I said, this will be last time she’ll have to do this.
Our next case is that of Clarissa, a bright and eccentric junior who is charged with using her cellphone in the girls’ room. Specifically, she is charged with talking on her cellphone in a stall in the New Edition girls’ room when she should have been using the toilet instead. “Actually Mr. Chairman, that’s not entirely correct,” reports Miss Spellman, a Math teacher. “Clarissa was indeed using the toilet – she was going both ways,” Miss Spellman explains, “It’s just that she was talking on her cellphone while she was doing it.”
The use of cellphones in school has been a big issue this year, although more so with the Principal than the TVPC. Though they’ve always been banned in the classroom, a new school rule prohibits their use anywhere in school during school hours. The TVPC has long had a rule against their use in the girls’ room, but with the Principal cracking down on their use in school, some girls have tried to take advantage of the relative privacy of the girls’ room to use their cellphones. Consequently, we’ve seen a bit of an uptake in cases of girls using cellphones in the girls’ room – either during a necessary trip to the girls’ room or in making a girls’ room visit just to use the cellphone. With Miss Spellman’s correction of my earlier statement, it seems that Clarissa was talking on her cellphone while actually using the toilet. This is not a serious offense but obviously girls who are using the toilet need to be focused on their bathroom business and not distracted by a cell phone conversation. What if another girl was waiting to use the toilet and had an accident because the girl in the stall was talking longer than necessary due to talking on her cellphone? Obviously, this type of behavior needs to be stopped and it’s the TVPC’s job to stop it.
In spite of Miss Spellman’s accusation, however, Clarissa insists that she’s done nothing wrong. “I was just using the toilet,” Clarissa tells us, “I wasn’t using my cellphone at all in there.” “I was busy in there – I was going both ways,” she continues, “I didn’t have time to be using my cellphone even if I wanted to.” “And who would want to be talking on the phone while going to the bathroom anyway,” she adds, “The person on the other end could probably hear what you’re doing in there – that’s just gross.” “I don’t know why someone would use a cellphone on the toilet – I agree that it’s gross,” Miss Spellman points out, “But I’ve seen quite a few girls doing that since the Principal cracked down on cellphone use during the school day.” “I guess girls think they can get away with it in the bathroom,” the very lovely Math teacher speculates, “I guess they think that no one can hear them talking from outside their bathroom stall.” “And I definitely heard you talking in there, Clarissa,” she tells the chatty and eccentric junior, “You were talking the whole time you were in there.” “I’m sorry, Miss Spellman, but I just haven’t used my cellphone all day,” Clarissa answered back respectfully, “I didn’t even use it this morning at home.”
This case obviously presents dilemma for the TVPC. I wouldn’t say that Clarissa is a perfect angel when it comes to bathroom matters (she is certainly a familiar face to the TVPC), but she’s never been one to lie. She certainly seems sincere and I really want to believe that she wasn’t using her cellphone in the girls’ room. On the other hand, NAME is certainly not one to falsely accuse a girl of a toilet violation and Clarissa, for whatever reason, actually seems to be a favorite student of Miss Spellman. Obviously, I believe that Miss Spellman heard talking coming from Clarissa’s girls’ room stall but again I don’t think Clarissa would lie. As the TVPC starts to sort out what seems to be conflicting testimony, we hear a voice from the back of the room. “Mr. Chairman, sir,” chimes in Sara, from the detention section of the TVPC committee room, “I think I can explain what happened.” I, of course, call her to the podium and grant her permission to address the TVPC.
Back on Wednesday, Sara, a bright and busy senior, messed in her panties in Art class – a case of the teacher not giving her permission to go to the girls’ room when she asked. By time Art class was over that day, the poor girl already had quite a bit in her panties but she still needed to go some more. She headed to the girls’ room immediately after class to do the rest of it in the toilet, but not wanting to risk soiling the toilet seat by sitting her messy behind down, she decided to squat instead. But in her rush to use the toilet before the mess in her panties got any worse, she forgot to lift up the toilet seat before squatting. Faithful readers of the TVPC surely know that the rules require that girls who squat over the toilet to relieve themselves lift up the toilet seat first. All in all it wasn’t a good day for Sara as she ended up not only with the usual 3 days of detention (and a 300 times writing assignment) for her 3rd panty-soiling accident, but a week of study halls sitting on the toilet as punishment for squatting with the toilet seat down.
Fortunately for us, Sara is here in detention today to explain the discrepancy in the testimony of Clarissa and Miss Spellman. Sara explains that she was in the New Edition girls’ room doing her toilet sitting punishment during her 6th period study hall this afternoon. This is the same period that that Clarissa was in there using the toilet. “Clarissa wasn’t using her cellphone on the toilet,” she reports, “But it’s easy to see how Miss Spellman would think that she was.” “Look, I like Clarissa, she is really a nice person, but she is so weird sometimes,” Sara continues, “But she has this weird habit of talking to herself sometimes.” “But it’s not even like she’s talking to herself,” she explains, “It’s like she’s talking to some kind of imaginary audience out there.” “It’s weird enough when she’s talking to an imaginary audience in class or at lunch,” the bright and busy senior adds, “But it’s really kind of freaky that she’s talking to an audience while she’s on the toilet.” “I doubt that she was on a cellphone” Sara argues, “I’m sure that she was having a conversation with that imaginary audience of hers – describing her trip to the girls’ room for them.”
Strange as that explanation may seem, I actually believe it. Clarissa has been known to do this kind of stuff before. Miss Spellman is satisfied with that explanation as well and has no objection when I find Clarissa “Not Guilty” of the charge. “I don’t know who you think you’re talking to all the time,” I tell Clarissa, “But there’s no rule against talking to them – at least not in the girls’ room.” Thanking Sara for help, I offer to reduce her detention by one day. “Today was actually my last day,” she points out. “Um – if you want to reduce my writing assignment a little that would be good,” she offers, “I still have a ways to go on that – With all my duties as Assistant to the Mayor of Townsville it’s hard to find time to do the punishment lines.” “OK – I’ll reduce the writing to 200 times then,” I tell her. “That would be great, sir,” she says with a smile, “Thank you.”
My name is Arnold Ziffel and I’m chairman of the TVPC. What follows are the summary minutes of the TVPC meeting of February 24, 2012.
Our first case of this afternoon’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) is a shy and quiet blonde-haired freshman named Tia. As she usually does when she appears before the TVPC, the shy and sensitive freshman is already crying as she takes the podium. And as is usually the case when Tia appears before the TVPC, she is charged with messing in her panties. The substantial load in her panties is quite evident by the large round bulge it causes even in her loose fitting jeans. Obviously, she is embarrassed by the load in her panties and it’s hard not to feel sorry for the sweet and painfully shy freshman. But this is her 6th panty-soiling offense of this school year and the time for leniency is long past.
“Again Tia?” I ask her, “Didn’t you just recently finish your punishment from the last one and here you are with yet another panty-soiling?” “You keep telling me that you’re trying to do better, but you still keep going in your panties,” I point out, “But 6 times already this school year is quite shameful.” “When are you going to learn to go in the toilet like a girl your age should?” I ask.
“This is the third time it’s happened in my class alone,” chimes in Miss Johnson, Tia’s English teacher, “And that’s just the times that I’ve caught her at it.” “And who’s to even know how many times she’s done it and didn’t even get caught,” Miss Johnson points out. “Tia just refuses to go in the toilet like she should,” her English teacher tells us, “I’ve tried to give her a girls’ room pass on numerous occasions but she just insists that she doesn’t have to go.” “I could see her just sitting there in class desperately trying to hold it in,” she continues, “But when I suggest that she go to the girls’ room, she refuses and then a little while later it’s usually in her pants.” “I know that some girls have trouble with using the school bathrooms, so I try to help them,” the kindly young teacher adds, “But Tia doesn’t even seem to want my help – She just sits there and does it in her pants.” “I guess it isn’t intentional, because she probably is trying to hold it in when it happens,” Miss Johnson tells us, “But it’s pretty obvious that she’d rather just do it in her pants and clean it up at home than do it in the toilet at school.”
“It wasn’t on purpose – I was trying to hold it in,” Tia mumbles through her tears, “I was trying as hard as I could to hold it in.” “I would never just do it in my pants on purpose – That’s just disgusting,” she argues emphatically, “I hate having messes in my panties – I really hate how that feels.” “Apparently you don’t hate it enough to stop doing it,” I point out, “Apparently you don’t hate it enough to start doing it in the girls’ room instead of your panties.” “I guess we believe you that you’re always trying to hold it in,” I explain, “But the point is that you shouldn’t be – You should be going to the girls’ room instead and taking care of your business in there.” “A few accidents here and there can be expected – especially for a freshman,” I tell her, trying to be a little comforting, “But you don’t seem to go to the girls’ room at all – You don’t seem to be making any attempt to improve your shameful toilet habits.” Upon questioning, Tia admits that she’s never actually done one of her bowel movements in the school girls’ rooms. “I’ve done the other thing in there, but never that,” she admits. She claims that a few times she sat down in the girls’ room intending to do it, but that she just couldn’t actually go. “I just don’t like having other girls around when I do that,” she tells us, “And even when I do have the girls’ room to myself, I’m always worried about other girls coming in while I’m going.” “It’s not just at school,” Tia explains, “I really don’t like to do that in any public bathroom.”
“You’re just going to have to,” I tell the freshman cutie, “You’re just going to have to find a way to go at school when you need to.” Upon further questioning, Tia acknowledges that though she does try to hold it in when she has to go at school and really does hate having those messy loads in her panties, she does indeed feel more comfortable cleaning up her mess at home than using the toilet in the girls’ room at school.”
“I’m afraid that’s going to change, young lady,” I tell her in no uncertain terms, “And I’m afraid that’s going to change right now!” I first sentence the toilet troubled freshman to write 1,000 times, “I will not soil my panties in school again.” Second, I sentence her to both a week of detention and 2 weeks of her 7th period study hall sitting on a toilet in the Main Corridor girls’ room. That’s pretty harsh, but I’m pretty sure she was expecting that. She was expecting that and she still messed in her panties, so I doubt that’s going to be a sufficient deterrent against her doing it again. “I warned you last time that there would be stern consequences if you did it again,” I remind her, “But obviously, you did indeed mess in your panties again.” “So just as obviously, the time for stern consequences is at hand,” I tell her, “This time we’re going to try a different type of punishment – And hopefully, it’s going to be a punishment you’ll think about the next time you need to do a bowel movement in school.”
With that I request that our ace hall and bathroom monitor Mrs. Johns accompany Tia down the hall to the 2nd Floor girls’ room. “Once in the girls’ room with Mrs. Johns, you will proceed to clean up your mess,” I tell her. “You will go into a stall, take the toilet paper, and completely wipe yourself clean,” I specify, “And then you’ll dump the load out of your panties into the toilet and scrub them thoroughly in the sink.” “And make sure that you do a good job cleaning those panties,” I tell the very upset freshman, “Because you’re going to be wearing them to school tomorrow.” Tia is, understandably, horrified at the prospect of having to clean up her accident in the girls’ room at school. She begs me to reconsider. “Please not that!” she pleads, “I won’t mess in my panties again, I promise.” “Maybe you won’t,” I answer optimistically, “After you have to clean up one of your accidents in school, I really hope you’ll finally learn your lesson and you won’t do it again.” “That is, after all, the whole point in punishing you,” I add. But even though I do feel sorry for her, I remain firm in her sentence. This is a punishment that she obviously needs.
It takes a moment for her to compose herself and she finally starts to realize that she is indeed going to have to clean herself up right here in school. She asks about privacy in this process. “Mrs. Johns will have to supervise the entire process,” I explain, “She’ll be right there in the stall with you to make sure that you clean yourself up completely.” “When you use the toilet properly, you get to go in the stall by yourself and have your privacy,” I point out, “When you go in your panties and have to go in there to clean yourself up as punishment, you don’t get that privilege.”
“Hopefully, you’ll learn your lesson this time,” I tell her. “Going in your panties in school and then cleaning it all up at home is no longer an option for you,” I explain, “When you go in your panties in school, you’ll be cleaning it up in school.” “I think you’ll find that it’s a lot easier to just go in the toilet when you need to,” I continue, “But obviously that choice is going to be yours.” Tia is still crying as the ever efficient Mrs. Johns leads her away to the girls’ room to perform the disgusting and humiliating task ahead. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a look of dread on a girl’s face as I see on Tia’s face now. It’s tempting to relent and give the poor girl a break, but I know that she truly deserves the punishment that I’ve assigned and it’s obviously the only way that she’s going to learn her lesson. Hopefully, as I said, this will be last time she’ll have to do this.
Our next case is that of Clarissa, a bright and eccentric junior who is charged with using her cellphone in the girls’ room. Specifically, she is charged with talking on her cellphone in a stall in the New Edition girls’ room when she should have been using the toilet instead. “Actually Mr. Chairman, that’s not entirely correct,” reports Miss Spellman, a Math teacher. “Clarissa was indeed using the toilet – she was going both ways,” Miss Spellman explains, “It’s just that she was talking on her cellphone while she was doing it.”
The use of cellphones in school has been a big issue this year, although more so with the Principal than the TVPC. Though they’ve always been banned in the classroom, a new school rule prohibits their use anywhere in school during school hours. The TVPC has long had a rule against their use in the girls’ room, but with the Principal cracking down on their use in school, some girls have tried to take advantage of the relative privacy of the girls’ room to use their cellphones. Consequently, we’ve seen a bit of an uptake in cases of girls using cellphones in the girls’ room – either during a necessary trip to the girls’ room or in making a girls’ room visit just to use the cellphone. With Miss Spellman’s correction of my earlier statement, it seems that Clarissa was talking on her cellphone while actually using the toilet. This is not a serious offense but obviously girls who are using the toilet need to be focused on their bathroom business and not distracted by a cell phone conversation. What if another girl was waiting to use the toilet and had an accident because the girl in the stall was talking longer than necessary due to talking on her cellphone? Obviously, this type of behavior needs to be stopped and it’s the TVPC’s job to stop it.
In spite of Miss Spellman’s accusation, however, Clarissa insists that she’s done nothing wrong. “I was just using the toilet,” Clarissa tells us, “I wasn’t using my cellphone at all in there.” “I was busy in there – I was going both ways,” she continues, “I didn’t have time to be using my cellphone even if I wanted to.” “And who would want to be talking on the phone while going to the bathroom anyway,” she adds, “The person on the other end could probably hear what you’re doing in there – that’s just gross.” “I don’t know why someone would use a cellphone on the toilet – I agree that it’s gross,” Miss Spellman points out, “But I’ve seen quite a few girls doing that since the Principal cracked down on cellphone use during the school day.” “I guess girls think they can get away with it in the bathroom,” the very lovely Math teacher speculates, “I guess they think that no one can hear them talking from outside their bathroom stall.” “And I definitely heard you talking in there, Clarissa,” she tells the chatty and eccentric junior, “You were talking the whole time you were in there.” “I’m sorry, Miss Spellman, but I just haven’t used my cellphone all day,” Clarissa answered back respectfully, “I didn’t even use it this morning at home.”
This case obviously presents dilemma for the TVPC. I wouldn’t say that Clarissa is a perfect angel when it comes to bathroom matters (she is certainly a familiar face to the TVPC), but she’s never been one to lie. She certainly seems sincere and I really want to believe that she wasn’t using her cellphone in the girls’ room. On the other hand, NAME is certainly not one to falsely accuse a girl of a toilet violation and Clarissa, for whatever reason, actually seems to be a favorite student of Miss Spellman. Obviously, I believe that Miss Spellman heard talking coming from Clarissa’s girls’ room stall but again I don’t think Clarissa would lie. As the TVPC starts to sort out what seems to be conflicting testimony, we hear a voice from the back of the room. “Mr. Chairman, sir,” chimes in Sara, from the detention section of the TVPC committee room, “I think I can explain what happened.” I, of course, call her to the podium and grant her permission to address the TVPC.
Back on Wednesday, Sara, a bright and busy senior, messed in her panties in Art class – a case of the teacher not giving her permission to go to the girls’ room when she asked. By time Art class was over that day, the poor girl already had quite a bit in her panties but she still needed to go some more. She headed to the girls’ room immediately after class to do the rest of it in the toilet, but not wanting to risk soiling the toilet seat by sitting her messy behind down, she decided to squat instead. But in her rush to use the toilet before the mess in her panties got any worse, she forgot to lift up the toilet seat before squatting. Faithful readers of the TVPC surely know that the rules require that girls who squat over the toilet to relieve themselves lift up the toilet seat first. All in all it wasn’t a good day for Sara as she ended up not only with the usual 3 days of detention (and a 300 times writing assignment) for her 3rd panty-soiling accident, but a week of study halls sitting on the toilet as punishment for squatting with the toilet seat down.
Fortunately for us, Sara is here in detention today to explain the discrepancy in the testimony of Clarissa and Miss Spellman. Sara explains that she was in the New Edition girls’ room doing her toilet sitting punishment during her 6th period study hall this afternoon. This is the same period that that Clarissa was in there using the toilet. “Clarissa wasn’t using her cellphone on the toilet,” she reports, “But it’s easy to see how Miss Spellman would think that she was.” “Look, I like Clarissa, she is really a nice person, but she is so weird sometimes,” Sara continues, “But she has this weird habit of talking to herself sometimes.” “But it’s not even like she’s talking to herself,” she explains, “It’s like she’s talking to some kind of imaginary audience out there.” “It’s weird enough when she’s talking to an imaginary audience in class or at lunch,” the bright and busy senior adds, “But it’s really kind of freaky that she’s talking to an audience while she’s on the toilet.” “I doubt that she was on a cellphone” Sara argues, “I’m sure that she was having a conversation with that imaginary audience of hers – describing her trip to the girls’ room for them.”
Strange as that explanation may seem, I actually believe it. Clarissa has been known to do this kind of stuff before. Miss Spellman is satisfied with that explanation as well and has no objection when I find Clarissa “Not Guilty” of the charge. “I don’t know who you think you’re talking to all the time,” I tell Clarissa, “But there’s no rule against talking to them – at least not in the girls’ room.” Thanking Sara for help, I offer to reduce her detention by one day. “Today was actually my last day,” she points out. “Um – if you want to reduce my writing assignment a little that would be good,” she offers, “I still have a ways to go on that – With all my duties as Assistant to the Mayor of Townsville it’s hard to find time to do the punishment lines.” “OK – I’ll reduce the writing to 200 times then,” I tell her. “That would be great, sir,” she says with a smile, “Thank you.”
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