Applied Common sense [or] Functional Literacy..

While I was pondering the meanings  common sense and functional literacy .. I recalled an anecdote I had experienced some time back.. 
As a cyber slave of an mnc I happen to put my bum many times in a month on the airline seat !!
It happened when one of my colleague and I were returning from Delhi in a KF airline. My colleague's Seat was hijacked by a neta ( yes you are right, it was a man dressed in the typical dress Indian politican don) He had an argument with my friend and of sheer common sense my friend asked him to show his boarding pass.. He got furious, by then his chela ( personal assistant ) came searching for him and told him that " Sir aap ki seat udhar hai' ( sir your seat is there ).. pointing to the business class.. and winked at my friend and told his boss.. yeh sob hot hai (It all happens)
But them I told my friend..a quote I had read.. 

Politics is the last resort of a scoundrel

and we had  good fun discussing, politics/common sense and functional Literacy !!
Guess what this guy is not aware of what class of Ticket was booked for him !!
But then when we landed we were getting out of the exit gate with big laughter and surprised to find people garlanding this man and some touching his feet..
We just slipped in the narrow gaps found between the people to save our Skin..