Sunday afternoon and a week until Christmas. People should be on vacation or tramping around la compagne. What is all of Paris doing at Musée de l'Orangerie! Then I noticed line "C" for special people. It was shorter. Im special. I'd waited 16 weeks and 6 days while living only 30 minutes away, to visit this museum and didnt feel obligated to have to wait any long. I watched the people at the front of the "entrance reserved"line to see if the guard was checking their papers for verification of their specialness. Yep. ok. See that nice couple and their kid in front of you? Act like youre part of their family. 
I got in.
The museum was fabulous.