Haha...I remember that! Ohmigosh...
"Go out there and get a switch and bring it here...". The height of cruelty. Not only am I about to get it, but I have to help load the fucking gun and pack the powder!
I always thought - even at a young age, while walking to retrieve the instrument of my doom - "what the kind of nonsense is THIS?!? Doesn't seem right...".
You get older and sassier and say stuff like "What's with me going out in the yard and finding you something to whip me with...just take off your belt and get it over with already!"
Not my finest hour, and perhaps one of the worst battle strategies ever implemented.