Does Penny obey the brown-haired woman's order?

Does she have a choice?

Seriously? Penny thought. A full-frontal pose?

Penny looked behind her at the road that was located just a few feet away from the front gate and tried not to imagine a car coming by just as she dropped her dress. Or worse yet, two cars. Or else a bus. With tourists. Camera-using tourists who would all take pictures of the funny blonde girl who was stripping down in public and then post them online where all her co-workers and managers at the Cheesecake Factory -- especially the ones who thought she was out sick -- would see her in all her glory.

Oh, the heck with it, Penny thought.

She had come too far to turn back now. Besides, the sooner she got this over with, the sooner she could get inside.

Penny adjusted the straps of her sundress and let it drop to the ground while at the same time aiming her body so that the security camera would focus on her belly button.

Then the brown-haired woman on the TV screen said, "That's nice. But can you please spread your legs a bit?"

Really? Penny thought.

But she went and did so.

"Now spread them a bit further," said the woman.

Penny gritted her teeth and closed her eyes as she obeyed the woman's orders.

"Now a bit further," said the woman.

Oh, well, she thought. In for a penny, in for a pound. No pun intended, of course.

"That's perfect," said the woman in a tone that Penny might have liked better if it did not sound so much like the same tone one of her co-workers used when she gave a doggie treat to her pet Schnauzer.

At least now they'll have to let me in, Penny thought.

"Now one last thing," said the woman. "Please turn around and bend over."