Life And The Fastpass

A fine bit of wisdom from No Runny Eggs:

A few years back, Disney instituted the Fastpass system.  With this system you can go to some of their more popular attractions, insert your entrance ticket and get a pass that will allow you to skip to the head of the line for that particular attraction at a set time.   There are a number of rules around how the passes work so that you may be able to get 3 or so on any given day and then stand in the regular queues for the other attractions.  Here’s my object lesson:  in life you may get the occasional Fastpass.  It may come in the form of a scholarship, a particular job promotion, a great spouse or some other plus.  Just like at Disney, life’s Fastpass will let you move ahead of your peers for a period of time.  However, also like Disney, you won’t get a Fastpass for every obstacle in your life.  Fastpasses should be looked at and used as a perk, novelty, gift.  Fastpasses are great and should be relished but we’re going to spend most of our lives standing in line with everyone else and that’s what life is mostly about.

Comments

[The Comedian]

I've never been to "The Mouse," but the skeptic in me wants an answer to the following question?

Could a person buy several entrance passes & use each to get its three allotted fast passes, essentially buying themselves an advantage over others?

If so, then "The Mouse" is lot more like real life than I'd realized.

[Shoebox]

I don't know if the Mouse would allow multiple ticket purchases but if you could, as in life, the issue would be the risk of the investment versus the payback. The issue being that the Mouse only issues XX many fastpasses a day per attraction. Once they are used, there are no more. You may attempt to "game" the process but at what cost and at what risk...similar to life!