Mom! I called out as I got home from baseball practice, "I'm home!"
"Hello Danny, we have to talk," she responded, while exiting my room.
When I saw what was in her hands, I became nervous. Some of the guys I pal around with talked me into shoplifting a few things from a department store.
"Please explain where these items came from."
I should have told her I was sorry, and that it was just the one time,
But instead I said, "Tommy made me do it. He said it was a dare. I didn't want him to think I was a sissy."
The next thing I knew, I was in big, big trouble with Mom. I got into trouble before but never anything this bad.
"You are grounded young man!" she remarked. You will come home immediately after school. You had better be here when I get home."
"But I've got baseball practice after school," I pleaded. I loved playing ball with the guys and I was a pretty good fielder and I batted over 300 last season.
"You should have thought of that before becoming a criminal. I've already called your coach and told him you were grounded for the next two weeks. After I explained why, he said you would not be allowed to play this year, as an example to the other players. So, you no longer have baseball practice, and are to come home immediately after school."
I haven't held a bat or seen any of my friends since my punishment began a few weeks ago. This was some spring training. At first I thought that was the worst punishment imaginable but boy was I wrong. One day during my second week of punishment, I was a little late coming home from school and unexpectedly found mom waiting on the porch. I would usually get home about a half an hour before she did, so I had stopped by the ball field to watch a little of the practice I was missing so much. She was pissed even more. "I thought you might have learned your lesson when I had given you the ultimate punishment by taking away your baseball, yet here you are disobeying me. I guess I'll have to try something a little more unique," she said. At that, she dragged me upstairs, told me to shower and come into her room wearing my robe.
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