It was all over – I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Hmmph. Mere child’s play compared to what surely awaited me. — A Christmas Story

The anticipation is the worse than the punishment.  There is a time for on-the-spot correction and there is a time for waiting.  To me, waiting to find out what’s going to happen when I mess up is horrible.