“And I want you to be in punishment position when Miss Caulder arrives Tommy”. The boy was mortified upon hearing this over the dinner table. His stepsister Julia looked at him and snickered. What his stepmother was saying was that he would have to be totally nude for the visit from his 7th grade teacher tonight.
These punishments began shortly after the death of his father. Whenever his stepmother, Sondra, felt he had misbehaved she would strip off all his clothes and humiliate him somehow.