It was harmless.

It cost nobody anything.

It made a hotel ballroom marginally more accessible than it had been.

And it was the moment I stopped being a man who had been hired to help somebody walk, and became a man who was managing an appearance, which is a different job with a different set of skills and a different relationship to the truth, and I made that transition in a production meeting without noticing it.

The day itself was flawless.