if up to now I used to make use of the word "ABSURD" in a very thoughtless and inconsiderate way. three months in Russia cured my inaccuracy....
I spare you my long philosophical meditations...and deliver to you the essence:

a long dialogue ( again, I had the delicate attention to cut it shorter) between myself and a guardsman at the entrance of a restaurant I fancy...

- Hi
- .....
me trying to get in
- Do you have a reservation?
- No
- No reservation, no entry!
- I understand, but I'm a member!
- your card?
- well, I did it before Christmas, but never picked it up so it's inside...
- no reservation..non entry
- ok. but can I pick up my card and then I'll get in?
- where's your card?
- Inside!
- No card huh? ...well you don't get in...plus we're booked out!
- my friend and I, we come every week, you know me! plus it's wednesday... let me in please!
- no reservation, no entry
- You know it's not booked out..I can eat at the bar, I dont mind..please!
- NO!
- com'on! I'm a member ...just let me in and....
- member card pick ups on tuesday from 17 to 19

you can imagine my face, staring at him and trying to make him understand how wrong he was
(good luck!!) and how absurd it was (forget about it..)

Eventually I got in..with my friend...'cos he's got his member card ..
stamped on the forhead!
....in form of a scar; since he fell on the restaurant stairs when he was drunk once...
so the scar confers him the most wanted "all access"!