Imagine a man who sells his freedom to do whatever he wants from 6 pm to 6:15 pm every single day to his wife, to whom he commits to do the dishes at this time.
There is no scarier moment in professional sports than tonight around 8 pm when NBA Commissioner David Stern will shakes hands with a very tall young man in a flashy suit and a commemorative baseball cap.
In danger of falling on to the assembled mass, and after some heated communication between the CBI chief and the man in the roof - now joined by a friend - the PM was bundled off into a side room to deliver his speech cheek by jowl with the invited guests, and the constant interruptions of mobile phones, TV cameras, photographers, and noises off.