Ganesh festival : When VIP passes are of no use

The more social of our rivers had been to a Ganesh mandap recently. This place is rather high-profile and hence if one is a commoner one would have to wait for hours to get inside the pendall. Now our river has considerable clout in the area so one would assume that he would sail in and out of the mandap. But surprisingly this was not to be. He too coudlnt get his hands on the passes. (This gives an idea as to how really high-profile the place was.)

Meanwhile while loitering around the mandap, our river spots a highly placed management person from our company, with whom he has very good relations. Now this gentleman was armed with a VIP pass and somwhat mocked our river that he was going to get in while he would be cooling his heels outside.

Salt had been rubbed in. Our river could take it no more. He somehow found some contact and was able to get inside the mandap through some secret entrance. He was now right in front of the idol. Various queues of persons were slowly moving in from the main entrances. VIP pass holders were also queued up. Probably too many VIP's too. The highly placed person had still not made it. And here our river had already finished his darshan.

VIP passes are indeed of no use. Local on-the-spot contacts are what matters. Our river knows this. He prevails.