“How am I every going to let anyone let me chain them up, blindfold them and drip hot wax on them now?”

Smile sweetly and say please? :-)

Actually if I were going to really get into topping I think I’d go for the “more in sorrow than in anger, this hurts me more than it does you, I know it hurts and I’m sorry but you really did forget to count so we’ll have to start over” approach. With soft-looking but potentially wicked rubber-band-powered wooden nipple clamps, natural herb-dyed hand-braided silk ropes, fresh nettles instead of hot wax, rose and acacia thorns for piercing and scratching, and birch twigs soaked in spring water.

Hmm. Or maybe not. But you have to admit that way would be more perverse than the overused black leather and chains routine. :-)