Synopsis: This is a fictive story about juridical punishment of
speeding in Denmark. Partially based on a proposal by the Danish
politician Overgaard, it takes place in year 2016 where the city
center of several cities had banned cars from entering them
resulting in a need for an alternative method of transportation
because the roads in most of the city centers in Denmark are too
narrow to accommodate bus-service.

Title: Domestic peace restored.

1. As it used to be

“Now you have done it once more. You have not the DVD’s sorted by
the name of the production company. It cannot be THAT hard. You
are so messy! Yesterday you had put your underwear in the wrong
laundry basket and you had forgotten to close one of the cupboard
doors in the Kitchen.”

John did not listen. She complained all the time. Moaning,
Moaning etc. It had been so for more than 3 years.

He had even stopped going anywhere in a car together with her,
when it was possible to avoid it. “Look at the road. You are
going too fast. Mind the pedestrian.” He could not take it. He
considered a divorce.

He had meat Ann some 10 years ago. She was a beautiful young
woman with a well-proportioned body. She had long hair with a mix
of brown and red. In the start, he was very skeptical about her
interest in him. He was a grown man living in the northern suburb
of Copenhagen called Hellerup. He did not know whether it was the
prospect of living in his town that made her having an interest
towards him or it was he as a person, which she fell for.

When he had her home, she threw herself at him and they had
wonderful sex. After 2 years, they married and they both got jobs
at once.

He worked as assistant in a firm of contractors, but Ann’s career
skyrocketed. After 5 years, she became a manager and soon her
income became the basis for their way of living.

When they had their children, he stayed at home when the first 14
days had passed.

When the kid got older, the daily routine always stayed the same.
They dropped of the children in daycare. Then he drove her to her
job. She did not like to drive herself. He had changed his
working hours and now he worked only part-time. After work, he
collected the children and went to collect Ann. During this time,
she was all over him, telling him how to drive.

When they got home, she started working once more and he would
make dinner. After they had eaten, he would see to that the
children would get into bed. Sometimes Ann would take a break
from her work and join him kissing them goodnight. However, they
had to behave or she could loose her temper.

Still he loved her and now he had taken an extra job because he
wanted her to have a special gift when she turned 35 the next
month.

2. The course

Then one afternoon, when they approach their home Ann told John,
that she had to go to a course. What John did not know, was that
she had arrange for her lover Stephen from the work to join her
at the hotel a few hours before the course started.

On the day of her departure, she was late. She had to take
Stephen in her car at his place, because his car was at service.
Therefore, she rushed over to his place at little irritated about
all the roadwork on the highway.

Nevertheless, she made it and they had a very good sex followed
by an exciting course. When she returned home on Monday even John
noticed that she was in a very seldom-good spirit.

However, it all changed the next Friday, when she opened her
mail.

It was a photo from the police showing her speeding with more
than 30 kilometers above the limit. It was a catastrophe. The
photo showed her at the wheel and a blanked out person at her
side. If John became aware about this fine, their marriage would
be over. There should not have been anybody at her side. She
would have been alone. The stretch of road where the photo was
taken was not even close the route to she was supposed to have
taken.

How could she explain to John that she had to do community
service for the next three Sundays? The new government had
abandoned fines as a method to regulate the laws about speeding.
Every 10 kilometers meant community service for 5 hours. The
service had to be served very locally and on Sundays. It
consisted of cleaning up in ditches along the Danish highways. It
was considered a very suitable punishment for people, which drove
their vehicle too fast.

In addition, her position in the local society was in danger. She
had always been a front figure when it came to volunteer work for
the church. Because the pickup for the community service always
was at the local town hall, she was also at risk of being seen by
her neighbors. It would be very shameful if they saw him in the
community service boiler suit. Her – the manager at one of
Denmark’s largest firms doing community service in a filthy
boiler suit, it could not happen!

For a moment, she was in despair. Then she saw the alternative
offer. She could serve in the rickshaw service in Copenhagen. If
she did, she could do her punishment in just 2 days. The rickshaw
service was an experiment made by the Danish government, because
it had become difficult to find task for all the offenders, which
were caught speeding. Because the task was regarded as harsh
compare to the task of cleaning the ditches, the total number of
hours of community service was less, if the offender chose this
method of punishment. A training day would cut 10 kilometers and
a full weekday of pony service would take care of the last 20
kilometers. She could take two days of because she had plenty of
flexible hours to spend. John would not have to know.

She was so pleased that she did not notice that her offence had
been categorized having been done under aggravating circumstances
because it was done along a roadwork, which meant that she had
endangered the lives of the road workers.

3. Preparing and fitting the pony gear

“Darling. I am taking the bus today. There is no need for you to
drive al the way to my firm just to drop me off. Remember that I
cannot be reached by phone because I have serious meeting
regarding a merger all day. I even think that those meetings
would continue tomorrow.”

First John was surprised but he always was a somewhat relieved.

Ann steeped on the bus and changed several time in order to
secure that she was not followed by anyone from her local
community. Then she reached the ranch, where the ponies were
trained. Exactly where the ranch was placed was a secret as a
service to the ponies.

Once she had checked into the facility, she was followed a huge
matron wearing a heavy rubber apron and gloves to a dressing room
and told her to undress. She should carry only her running shoes
along.

Then they came to a bathroom. “Please, lie down on this bench on
your stomach.” She did as she was told. The matron cuffed her at
her wrist and feet. In addition, a leather strap went over her
body and finally she got a collar around her neck so her head
could not be moved. It felt like being put in a pillory.

“We have to clean you before we put the tail into you”

“Tail? What tail” She started to protest, but the matron quickly
shoveled a huge gag-ball into her mouth shutting her effective
off.

“Just relax. It would hurt only a little but when we insert this
nozzle into you. We have lubricated it very well. It is only 2
liters.”

As told, it was inserted with a little pain and she felt the cold
water running into her stomach. First, it was not too unpleasant
but then she felt the pressure of the water, which made her sweat.
After a while the water had run into her. Then the nozzle was
removed and replaced by a butt-plug, which was inflated. “You
have to hold it for 15 minutes or it would not be effective.”
Then the matron left her alone.

Her stomach began to cramp and it became worse every minute. She
moaned and groaned in the gag. Then her body began to shake out
of control. At the end, she screamed muffled screams into her
gag. The matron returned and told her to calm down. It would soon
be over. She was released from her restraints and because her
feet would not support her, she was dragged a toilet. “I am now
going to remove the plug. Relief your self and when you are
finished please take a bath. You can remove the gag also.”

When she stepped out of the bath, she felt her behind very sore.
She had newer had anything inserted in her rear hole. When she
was finished, she was followed to the stable.

First she became a kind of leather corset to put on. It had
leather cuffs at her upper arms and her wrists. As they tightened
the corset, she always felt it as if she was going to be cut in
half. The cuffs at her wrists were a kind of leather mitten,
which removed her use of her hands.

They asked her to bow and they mounted a piece of leather at her
crotch, which covered her genitals. There was a strap, which went
between her legs. In the strap, there was a hole. She felt
something entering her anus. It was a tail mounted on a
butt-plug. She screamed out when they started to press plug into
her. “Be quiet. You have volunteered. You could have chosen
normal community service, if you knew that you could not take
it.” Soon they had gotten the widest part into her fanny and she
made a sigh of relief, when it was fully inserted.

“Now for the hood. It is very important. I think that the
prospect of being anonymous is why you have chosen this harsh
method of serving your punishment. Especially, as we can see from
your reaction from the tail that you are ready to endure a lot of
pain.”

They pulled the leather hood over her head. There were small
opening at the eyes consisting of small metal rings and a large
opening at her mouth. They also put a posture collar on, which
forced her head up. She did feel like looking down in shame, but
it was not a possibility now.

“Lets go outside where you cart waits for you. Because you are
only going to serve for one day, it is a two-person cart you have
to pull on your own. We only team people up, when it comes to
longer sentences.”

The cart was connected to some D-rings at her corset. They
mounted a head-harness on her with a bit-gag, where the reins
were attached. Finally, they mounted a harness so the weight of
the cart was spread out over her body.

“Let’s start the training. I have to call the instructor. Oh.
There he is.”

As Ann turned her head, she got a shock. It was John.

4. The training

Then she got hold of her self. There was no way John could
recognize her. And they did not use names on the ranch at all.
They only referred to the ponies by the case number.

For the next couple of hours the instructor commanded her around
the field. Because it was a secret, which people that did the
community service as pony, it was not allowed to use a whip on
the pony. It could leave marks on the ponies, which could reveal
their identity.  The control had to be made by the use of the
reins only. It meant a lot of training because she had to work in
the crowded and often narrow streets in the center of Copenhagen.
A couple of time they stopped at a drinking post. It was a
device, which looked very similar to something she had seen in
the children’s rabbit cage. Finally after some 3-4 hours the
instructor – her husband was satisfied.

“Now you can maneuver the cart in a satisfactory manor. It is
nice to see a person able to take a command whenever given and
just executing it without second thoughts.” Then he told her to
return to the stable before he started the training of the next
pony.

She was lead back to the stable where she got a shower to wash
the dirt of and went to get her orders by an officer after she
had dressed into her own clothes.

“You have to report out here on Saturday at 7’am. You have to
change into the pony gear, before we drive you to Copenhagen in
order to avoid being recognized. You are on duty 3 hours, then
you have a lunch break and finally you have about 4 hours more of
services, before we take you back here. You will of course be
cleaned, but if you need to pee, just do it. You are properly
aware that people convicted of white-collar crimes do clean the
streets and they also have a duty to put sawdust where you do
what you have to.”

She left for the bus stop. Her mind was a mess. Had her husband
recognized her? What other surprises did the pony job have in
store for her?


5. Working day

After the painful process of dressing (She could not adjust to
the enema.) she was lead outside the stable where more than
thirty ponies waited for the transportation to Copenhagen. The
officers did not like talking among the ponies, so they were all
gagged with huge gag-balls.

They were ordered onto a bus. Once arrived in Copenhagen,
everyone was connected to his or her carts. Every pony had to
start at separate places. She was ordered to the plaza in front
of the city hall.

Her first costumers were two youngsters. They went around the
city center on a random route. They made fun of her hour shaped
body. They also took her to the one of the drinking posts and
serviced her. They squeezed her buttocks bringing her to sob in
humiliation. Suddenly one of the workers from the department
approached them. He grabbed the youngster. “You have just won 2
days of pony service. It is against the law to do actions, which
would be judged as sexual harassment against any pony. You have
also broken the law that forbids disturbing interference of
public transportation.”

The two youngsters broke down in tear, but there was no mercy. A
police officer on a bicycle came by. The two offenders were
cuffed to the bike by a chain and they had to run behind the
bicycle as the police officer slowly biked down to town hall.

The officer comforted Ann. “I am truly sorry for their annoying
behavior. That is why we are around to key an eye on things.
However, you still have to finish your punishment. The question
is whether you can cope it today or we should arrange to do it
another day. Nod if you wish to continue it today.”

Ann nodded. If she chooses another day, it meant another day with
enema and dressing up in pony-gear. She could just go ahead and get it
over with. Therefore, she continued her services.

One after another, she took businessmen to difference locations
around the city center. She had often used the rickshaw service
herself, when she had meetings in the city center. It was the
fastest way of getting around if one had a heave briefcase with
papers and was dressed up in a nice suit. There was no reason to
spoil once hairdo with a bike helmet, which has been mandatory in
Denmark for years.

She recognized some of her clients and was grateful for her hood.
Because she did her service on a weekday, there were not so many
tourists around. It was a setback, when it became lunchtime. It
was very difficult for her to eat out of a nosebag. Then she
heard familiar voices. It was John and her children. “Lets us
help the ponies with their feeding process.” He took the nosebag
off and handfed her. The children also held their hands up with
flakes of oatmeal and she saw their surprised big blue eyes when
she ate. Theirs ran down from her eye but because of the hood,
they could not see it.

“Father. Why are they dressed up like this?”

“It is because they have broken the law. If you break the law,
you must pay the punishment. In the old day’s only two types of
punishment existed: Prison or fines. Now almost every offence is
punished with some kind of community service, because people
cannot continue to work and pay taxes when they are in prison. We
should in some way be proud of those people who take
responsibility for their actions and repay their debt to society
by hard work.”

John also held a bottle of water up to her mouth and she drank it
all gratefully. Then her lunchtime was over.

“We want a ride” It was one of her children. John and her kids
sat down in the cart and they began to go slowly down the main
pedestrian street. When they reached the end, John came to the
front and said with a low voice close to her head; “You are doing
fine. I am proud of you. I recognized you in training because of
the birthmark on your left buttock. I took the kids out of school
today in order to have an excuse to see you in action. Relax, I
have not told the children about your community service. Your
secret would be safe with me.” Ann started to cry with relief.
John left with the children.

The next clients were all businessmen. Then another familiar
voice reached her. It was Stephen in company with a blond girl.
What was he doing here? At this time, he was supposed to be
driving to a client several kilometers from here.

As she began to run down the street, she heard them talking in
the back. “How is Ann for the time being? I know that you were
together with her at your company course. When are you going to
tell her that you are together with me now?”

“Later. It is good for my career to be with her. She does not
control my timesheet. I just write a visit some client on it and
we can be together instead. If I did not endure serving her
untrimmed body, we could not spend so much time with each other.
Does that meaningless sex bother you at all?”

“Well in way it does. But I also want to be with you and it means
that you have to stuff that fat goose, it have to be like this.”

Ann became angry when she heard their conversation. She wanted to
stop right there at kick his ass forth teen days into next week.
However, she had no choice to continue. Finally, they came to the
restaurant where Stephen and his girlfriend were going.

Ann continued her work. At last, the day ended and after she had
returned to the city hall, she was disconnected from her cart and
led into the bus.

It had been a very hard day. Her husband had discovered her most
shameful secret. Her lover had been making a fool out of her. She
cried on the way back to the ranch. Thankfully they were gagged
so not even the pony next to her discovered it.

6. Surprise punishment and lacing loose ends.

After her bath, she went to the officer in charge to confirm that
her punishment was over. He had a surprise for her. “Due to the
fact that the offence has been done under aggravating
circumstances, you are in for an extra punishment. You have
endangered the lives of the road workers and it is not
acceptable. But relax; there is no more rickshaw service in store
for you. The extra punishment is that you have to perform at one
of our dressage shows.”

“As you know, we have those shows from one time to another in
order to raise money for the school crossing guards all over
Denmark. It means two-three extra days depending how fast you
learn the steps. It is not so hard as pulling carts is but one
have to concentrate.”

Ann was in shock but at least she had not to care about a lie to
John, because he knew her secret.

As she left the ranch, she saw John waiting for her in the car.
“I have sent the children over to your parents. We have to talk.”
They drove home in silence.

At the dinner table, John took the word. “I do not know where you
were caught speeding and what the reason was not to tell me. I
have not seen the picture. I have my suspicion about your reason
but I do not care. Or I would rephrase it: I would not want to
know it. I think we should concentrate about the future.”

“I know that I have been a bitch for sometime. I felt it as I was
raised above the crowd and behaved accordingly. I did not
appreciate our relationship and I have behaved poorly toward you
and the children. I can see it now and I want to change. Please
accept my apology.”

“I accept it. Past is past. You are forgiven and we have two
children to think about. What about we take some days off in a
weeks and stay at a hotel without children just making love for
the entire weekend?”

“I agree. I would talk to my parents so they can take the
children for a weekend. But I have also one more request. It
seems that my punishment also include participation in a dressage
show. Could you train me?”

“I have to speak with my superior because we are related, but I
would think that is all right.”

7. Next day in office

“Stephen: I want to see you in my office right now”

Stephen was a little surprised. She sounded angry. He went to her
office with a charming smile on his face. Whatever her reason, he
would twist her around his finger in a few minutes. He had this
kind of power over women. Glowing with self-confidence, he went
into her office.

“Close the door!”

“I have a serious matter to discuss with you. I saw you with a
woman yesterday. I heard you talking about my untrimmed body and
certainly dislike being referred to as a goose. What have you to
say for your self?”

“But… I …. How???”

Ann made a horse sound. Stephen dropped his jaw.

“You!! You - You were pulling us.”

For a moment he looked as he had seen a ghost. Then he started to
laugh. “I had to admit that I have been fooling around, but you
cannot do anything about it without relieving to everyone that
you have done pony-service. I would destroy your reputation.”

Then they heard a knock on the door. The president of the
corporation entered.

“I have informed my superior about my punishment as it is company
policy to do.”

The president continued. “Yes that is correct and we find that
her punishment would not have influence on her position at our
company. You however have falsified timesheets, which is a crime.
You know that the punishment would be community service in the
city center emptying garbage cans and sweeping the streets.
However, we would give you a choice. If you resign on your own
with a clause about total secrecy, we would not press charges.
You have to decide now and you are going to be outside the firm
in an hour. Here is the contract. What is your choice?”

Stephen signed without a word and left the office slamming the
door.

“Thank you” Ann took a breath of relief.

“It is all right. I did community service just 6 months ago for
speeding. It was hard cleaning the ditches for a full Sunday, but
I am admiring your choice to do pony service. It must be so
harsh. However, try to avoid business and personal life in the
future. It was no secret in the company what you had going with
Stephen. It had bothered us for some time and if it had continued
we would have been forced to react.”

“There would be no repetition. I have learned my lesson.”


8. Preparing for dressage training

Ann and John arrived together to the ranch.

The matron took care of the cleaning process. Prepared and
experienced from the previous cleaning process, she took the
painful enema process more relaxed. When she entered the fitting
room John was waiting for her with a couple of other staff
members.

“You have to wear another outfit, than the one you have previous
warn. First the black PVC jumpsuit.” As Ann had put it on, she
noticed there were openings at the bottom. Then they put a red
leather corset on her and laced her very tight, which made her
gasp for air during the lacing process.

Then they mounted a red leather strap on the back of the corset,
which was supposed to go between her legs. They told her to bend
over and clenched her teeth. She knew the tail was supposed to
get in and she was not disappointed. It even hurt a little more.

“We are using a larger plug during dressage training. It makes
you more aware about your movement.”

After the fitting of the tail, they connected the leather piece
in front, so her genital were covered.

“Now for your hood: You would notice and it is a special latex
hood with a artificial mane in the top. Because you only have to
perform one show, we would not require a special haircut.” When
Ann got it on, she discovered that her face was not covered. “But
now people can recognize me.”

“Not exactly. You would be wearing blinkers during the show. It
would be difficult to recognize you because people can only see
you at distance. If the show is broadcasted on television, it is
not allowed to zoom in on your face.”

“Now for your posture collar. You have to keep your head up
during the show. This collar would force you maintain your head
in the same position.” They closed the collar. Ann could neither
lower her head nor turn it. A ball gag was inserted in her mouth.

“We have to do something about your posture. You have this
tendency to walk stooping. Your back has to straight.”

They produced an arm binder and laced it tight. At the bottom of
the binder, there was a hook, which they connected to a similar
hook at the strap, which went between her legs forcing her to
straighten her body up.

“It seems OK. Your husband has told you what size of shoes you
use. Please support her while I put her new shoes on.” It was an
odd kind of shoes. She had not seen like it before. It felt like
a normal pair of high heels but they looked so odd. “When you
train, you will notice that the shoes leave marks formed like
horseshoes instead of a normal footprint. It is just a part of
the illusion. Now you are ready for your training. Take her to
the walker.”

9. Dressage training

John led her trough the building. It was difficult to walk in
these bizarre shoes and she almost fell several times. Then they
arrived to a large room where a strange form of exercise ring was
placed. It had six metal bars going out in the top. From each
bar, chains were hanging down. Two other ponies were already
going slowly pulled by the slow movement of exercise ring.

John pressed a control button at the wall, which made the
exercise ring stop. He took her to the ring where she was placed
just below one of the bars. He then hooked two of chains, which
were hanging down to some D-rings at the top of her arm binder.
He returned to the controls and pressed the button, so the ring
started again.

He had a long horsewhip, which he used to correct their pace.
“Raise your legs high when you walk.” He just indicated how high
she had to raise her leg by putting the tip of the whip under her
knees. If was very difficult to do because she could not look
down due to the posture collar.

Around and around they went for 30 minutes. Then he stopped the
exercise ring and disconnected her. As she stood watching the
other ponies as they continued their walk, she noticed that it
was two males. They had a Mohawk haircut. John could see the
question in her eye and told her why it had been done to them.

“These two men had been convicted of dangerous driving causing
the death of another person. They were sentence to 6 month of
prison including a confrontation with the relatives where they
have to sit gagged and restraint for the most of an hour while
the relatives tell the stories of the deceased just so they can
understand that they caused the death of real persons.”

“After their prison time, they spend 3 days per week doing
rickshaw service and 2 days out here cleaning the place and 1 day
practicing for the dressage shows and finally one day of if there
is no show in that weekend. They have their hair done like you
see because they have to stay here doing their punishment for a
whole year per person they have killed. Their presence is
mandatory at every show unless our doctor tells it otherwise.”

“After they have done their time at this place, they can cut all
their hair of and start to grow a normal haircut. They can take
an ordinary job but have to do community service 1 day per week
cleaning ditches along the highways for 6 month up to a year
depending of their ability to show genuine remorse before the
parole board.”

“But enough of this now. Let’s go outside. We have to go trough
your program.” He led her to a training ground. He showed her a
diagram of the program she was supposed to do. Then they started
to practice.

“Now walking pace! That is good! Raise your legs a little further
when you walk. Your knees have to almost touch your breasts. That
is good!”

“Run as fast as you can. Stop! Stand on one leg. Higher up with
the knee. Try to hop on one foot and turn your body at the same
time. No. You have to take care about not moving around. The turn
must take place on exactly the same spot.”

Ann was sweating and panting. It was hard. They took a break and
she got something to drink. “You are improving, but there is
still a lot to learn. Let’s continue.”

He continued to coach her all afternoon and finally she could do
the program.

As she left the shower and waited for her husband at the
entrance, she saw one of the youngsters, which had bullied her.
He sat and cried on a chair obvious shocked by his experience of
being trained to be a pony. For a minute she felt a little
sympathy with the young man, but then she remembered his
insulting behavior and though that he should had though a second
time before he had chosen to bully her. If once does a crime,
once have to take his punishment.

Later back at home in bed when the children had gone to sleep,
John asked her to bend over. She was a little surprised when he
entered her rear hole. “I have always dreamt about it and it have
certainly been cleaned and prepared for me today.”

First, she did not find it very pleasant. It hurt a little but
after a while of hard pumping she began to enjoy it and when he
finally came, she also got an orgasm.

10. Dressage show

Sunday they arrived to the ranch. After she had been dressed, she
was lead to a bus along with all the other show ponies.

Soon they were on their way, but she became quite nervous when
the bus stopped at their local town hall. She had forgotten al
about the civic festival. John was aware of her risk of being
recognized and soon took precautions against it. He closed her
blinkers until it was her turn to perform at led her to a chair.

While she sat there, she could here the crowd cheering and
applauding whenever some of the participants had done their
program.

Then it was her turn. John took her by her arm and led her toward
the arena. Then he opened her blinkers and she saw the arena for
the first time. There must have been at least about 100 people
attending the show.

John led her to the center of the ring. Then they started on her
program. First she was very nervous but then she concentrated on
doing her program. It was not until she was almost finished that
she discovered that her parent had brought her children over to
see the show. Thank good for the hood and the blinkers. They
seemed to enjoy the show and her children did only once in a
while waive at their father.

Her show soon ended and after receiving a standing applaud John
led her out back again and closed the blinkers. He gave her
something to drink. While they were waiting for the rest of the
show, she heard her mother speaking to her husband.

“Where is Ann? Are there still problems with the merger? The
children had told us that she has been so nice and relaxed
lately. I thought the problems have been solved.”

“The merger is quiet in order. She is just in the firm putting
the last pieces together. She would be joining us to dinner
tonight.”

“What about your surprise gift to her?”

“Let’s talk about it tonight. I have to get finished here.”

“Of course. See you later.” Then her mother left.

11. Happily living forever.

In the evening, the arrived at her parents house.

“You seem to have lost a lost of weight. Have you been working
out?”

Ann nodded. They soon changed to other subject and started on the
dinner. They were just getting ready to leave the table, when
John asked for the word.

“As you know, Ann is now 35. Lately we have found together in our
marriage with renewed spirit. I have for some time had a second
job and had earned additional money, so I now would present you
with a 7 days vacation in London just for the two of us. I have
arranged with your parents and the president at your company that
we would leave on Monday.”

Ann began to cry out of joy. She stood up and kissed her husband.
“Thank you. I love you.”

They had a wonderful holiday. During their stay, they discussed
her experience. Also how she had changed as a person during the
process were discussed.

After they returned from their holiday, a noticeable change in
their daily life seems to have taken place. Ann would share her
part of the workload in the household.

Some years later a new pony was let out in front of the stable
preparing to be trained in order to do rickshaw service. The
matron looked around searching for the instructor. “Oh. There she
is. Ann: Come here!!”