Post #609889 by Tacky Tiki on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 7:48 PM

I want to see an end to the discussion of what happened at my house on Saturday. I would love to have people remember the good things that happened at the crawl..there were awesome drinks..great friends..hula dancers..great food...

For the record, it was a bit into my stop that I saw something missing from the wall. I had just rearranged the mugs on that wall the night before and had been planning where I was going to put my shelf I won in Chicago at CATT, so I had just looked at the wall in the days before and I sure didn't see an empty hook then.

So when I saw it, witnesses said I turned white in shock. I asked my mother if she had moved something...was there something I should know because there was something missing, and she said there was not an empty hook earlier.

Liz asked me what was missing and I mistakenly told her it was a Hinky Dinks ashtray, because that is what was on the hook for years. When I was gifted a replica menu a few months ago we moved the ashtray and the menu around the corner. I know we stuck something there that did not go with Trader Vic's just to fill the hole, and it irritated me because it did not match the grouping.

There is an item I still cannot locate. I asked others to please help me locate that item and none could..it still has not turned up.

Liz took control, she saw I was wandering around in shock saying "I don't know what to do.." and my mom gave the ok to ask people to leave as I was uncomfortable. By the time people were leaving, I realized there were some that had come and gone...people I didn't know, but that probably doesn't even matter..

Unfortunately something happened. It is not the first time it's happened (but not with tiki people) and I've had trivial decorations removed and display mugs broken. Silly stuff. I pretty much know who did it before, and she is a known clepto, and will steal random stuff just because she can. Everyone in that scene knows it. I just stopped inviting that group to my house.

Unfortunately people are very upset with me over the whole thing. If you want to ban me, go right ahead. As you can see I've been on TC since it came over from Yahoo Groups, and nobody has ever had trouble with me. I try to keep to myself and rarely post. There is a lot of drama on this board and I don't want to be a part of it. And I don't want the incident on Saturday to become another big TC drama blowout.

I thank you all for coming to my house, and I'm glad you enjoyed the crawl despite the issue on Saturday. I will not be hosting again, and may not even attend future events if this drama and the blacklisting continues. It's silly. I did not set anyone up, I have no idea if the item was stolen, broken and stashed, or someone knocked it off the wall and is embarrassed and figures I'll find it later (that's what I'm hoping!!) My mom rushed after people to ask them to come back because she didn't want the party to be over..she wanted everyone to have a good time, despite the missing item. I don't know why she said nothing was stolen..maybe because it's actually missing...maybe it really is stashed behind something else because the hanger broke and someone couldn't put it back. I saw several things get broken over the weekend and get set other places. Maybe that's what happened. Hopefully I'll know soon, for my own peace of mind.

Sorry you are all so upset with me..I was very upset that I went to so much trouble to try to make everything perfect and something ruined it. Tiki people in general are great people and it was pretty messed up.

Hopefully you will all go back to remembering the good things about our crawl and posting your awesome pictures. Be friends. Keep good mana flowing. Leave the drama alone.

Aloha,

Tacky Tiki