Jumping the queue

Riana, an American living in Paris blogs regularly about the customs, regulations, red-tape, and joy of life in France. And in one of her previous side trips she discovered an effective way to getting her way while in Malta:

We danced like fools after dining at a fantastic Thai restaurant in Brussels tiny china town area. The bar that we went to was a benefit for the Tsunami victims and was sponsored by the European Union Commission (funny, since I pretended to be part of that group four years ago when Dean and I were in Malta trying to get private tours of the Maltese Hypogeum).