Mercury Rising

Shortly ahead of hitting puberty I remember can the times when I used to make believe I was sick to stay home from school. I would pretend and act out in front of my mother; even going to the extent of heating up the thermometer with a flame and, oops, inadvertently busting it, mercury everywhere (hid the damn thing in my night stand drawer for years), this way I didn’t have to go to school. I was old enough to be left alone at home while my parents were at work. Being home alone gave me the opportunity to play out my fantasies to the best of my adolescent ability.

During such role plays, I would make good solid use of my Fischer Price tape recorder. On a cassette tape I would take the time to pre-record a "session" for play back later on. I would "act out" as the naughty school girl made to stay after class for detention/punishment. I would be made to write “I will not forget to wear my panties in gym class.” or something of the sort, a hundred times. Well, in all actuality I wrote something else, I just can’t remember what it was; as it was well over twenty years ago. Then I would receive some sort of self-administered physical punishment, e.g. whacks with the ruler, etc.