Just sit down...

At an ambassadorial banquet, after everyone was seated, one of the lady guests complained a bit too loudly that, according to the official order of preference, she ought to be seated next to the Ambassador. She was found to be right, and several of the guests had to get up and move down to make room for her. Feeling somewhat conscience-stricken at the fuss she had made, the lady said to the ambassador: "You and your wife must find these questions of precedence extremely troublesome." "Not really," said the Ambassador. "We have found by experience that the people who matter don't mind, and the people that mind don't matter."