Sweet Snippet: Spanking Neanderthals

Have you ever come across a passage while reading a book that is so funny/witty/sad/awesome that you have to stop reading to let it soak in?  Well, that my friends is what I call a sweet snippet.

I’m currently reading Jade Cary’s “The Point of it All” and am truly entertained by the ingenuity of a character trying to avoid a spanking.  I’ve never heard this argument before, but I am sure going to try it out one day…

“Are you going to spank me again?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Tears pricked her eyes. “I’ve had enough,” she whispered.

 

“I will decide that.”

 

“You have no right…”

 

“You said that before, and as I recall, we were in the middle of deciding what my rights were, when you distracted me with your dancing eyes and your beautiful laugh. I will include that among the many reasons why you have this spanking coming. Distracting a man from his duty is manipulative.”

 

“It is not. It’s in a woman’s nature to distract her man. How do you think women survived in Neanderthal times?”

 

His eyes danced. “Tell me.”

 

She sat up, cross-legged, next to him. “Well, see, the hunters have been out, hunting and gathering for days, sometimes weeks, and they come back to the cave from the hunt and gather, all pissed and exhausted because the giant Dodo they’ve been chasing across the tundra for days got away. And now he’s itching for a fight. They’ve neither hunted nor gathered, see?”

 

“Mmhmm.”

 

“There’s nothing cooking on the fire…”

 

“Because the Dodo got away…”

 

“Yes, and she certainly hasn’t had time to shop. Worse, there’s not a clean gourd for him to drink out of, and suddenly he’s looking for an ass to spank. She’s been chasing the future Neanderthals all over hill and dale, and quite frankly, she could use a foot rub and a martini. But, no. Chestthump Swingdick is put out now, and he wants revenge. Can any caveman worth his salt blame her if she stands in front of him and sort of bends over the fire to stoke it? It beats a sore backside.”

I have definitely been enjoying “The Point of it All” and look forward to sharing the review with you soon.  In the meantime, I wanted to share this sweet snippet that had me literally laughing out loud today.