Thanks, peoples. I had a black underbust corset on later in the evening (no way I wanted to drive with a corset on), but no camera with me.

OMG, everyone is freaking out on me about the date of the service! I am feeling really shitty and like I fucked up bigtime. I didn't make the decision! I don't mean to be messing up people's perceptions of when it should be! I'm just trying to get this done.

OMG, I want to go home.

People do tend to flip out around funerals and services, Nora.

It's not you.

Are they mad because it's too soon or too late or isn't on the second Tuesday after Michaelmas or because it's on the Superbowl or what?

Nora, I'm sorry that people are freaking out on you. It isn't you; it's the emotional nature of the event. Still, it isn't right that people are giving you a hard time about it. You haven't done anything to deserve anybody giving you grief.

{{Nora}}

{{{{Nora}}}}

{{{Shir&family}}}

Teppy, you are smokin'!

Teppy, you are smokin'!

Thank you! I'm rather disinclined to walk around kink parties in a state of undress -- not really out of body shame, just general modesty -- so outfits like that tend to be my compromise.

(((Nora)))

Teppy, I have not seen the pic yet, but I have no doubt you are smoking hot in it.

The last of the guests just left and we did the quickest cleanup ever. I don't know if it was JZ's powerful -ma or the powerful margaritas, but the pains subsided enough for me to have a very good day with my friends. People came and went in shifts which was sort of nice in that I felt I spent time with everyone.

vw, it was so great to see you!

Nice pic, Steph.

I'm bored. I'm distracting myself with trippy Israeli music. [link] (Even with the English subtitles, I think I'm getting maybe a quarter of the cultural references in that song. But it's bouncy.)

I had a question. Yesterday I had a guest blaming a cashier for something that was the guest's fault. I resolved it quickly and the guest walked away happy, thinking she was in the right. That's business, you know? She was just being dippy and wanted to blame it on someone else. The cashier is peeved at me for not setting the guest straight. I let people believe they're right all the time, I'm not sure I understand what the big deal is. I asked the cashier if he could see the benefit of letting the guest walk away happy and he said that he did, but he still didn't think it was right.

Is there a better way of explaining why letting stuff slide is good guest service? Or is there some way I could have clued the customer in on her mistake without pissing her off?