Still learning a lesson

My hussy should be here with me today.  But she isn't.  Instead she is still at home.  It may only be a trivial issue but my hussy never checks up on her arrangements.  For her, that arrangement is a simple one - cattery.  Her lovely two cats get their own week's holiday while she visits me.  She usually arranges this in advance, then promptly forgets what day they are supposed to be dropped off.  I have been asking her for a few weeks now to check when she was due to drop her cats off.  The only reply I have ever received was "Friday".  So I was all geared up for today, making sure her bed was ready etc etc.  The excitement levels were at a real high, full of anticipation and expectation.  Then last night she dropped the bombshell - she got her dates wrong.  She had the cattery booked from Saturday (tomorrow).

Trivial or not, my hussy never seems to check things properly, gets her dates and times muddled up.  I admit to being slightly confused in that when she is at work (as a teacher) she doesn't have these problems.  So obviously she has developed her own coping strategies and mechanisms not to miss a lesson, plan ahead and check dates and times.  I had a major issue with her last year when she missed a diary deadline completely because she went out socialising.  So to say I was miffed is an understatement.  I would have been really miffed if the cattery wasn't booked until next week especially as I have next week off work so we can be together.

Of course she knows she's in the dog house.  She knows she's going to get punished.  I have already devised a suitable punishment.  Not a physical one, I'm not vindictive.  Well I hope I'm not.  I'm sure there are some of you thinking it's a trivial matter and a sharp telling off is all that's required.  I know that doesn't work.  There needs to be something to back it up, teach her a lesson she is obviously still learning.  So after she has arrived sometime tomorrow, I will set out the punishment.  And it will be a taste of her own medicine.  As I've admonished her before, she wouldn't accept an excuse of being late or mixing up dates from her pupils and her colleagues wouldn't tolerate it if she did the same thing at work.

So trivial or not, she will accept her punishment and hopefully learn to check and double check any of her arrangements well in advance, write them down in her diary and tell me so I can make a note of them for back up.  Not the most auspicious start to our time off together, but I admit it also gets my dominant hormones racing.  Once it is done, it is done.  Slate clean.  And hopefully lesson well and truly learned.