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| Board Member #1: | It’s fundraising time again . . . |
| Board Member #2: | We should order some coffee mugs. |
| Board Member #3: | And tote bags. |
| Board Member #4: | Should we go with red this time, or do we still like white? |
| Staff #1 (mumbling): | We don’t need coffee mugs. |
| Board Member #1: | What’s that? |
| Staff #2: | I don’t think the thank you gifts are necessary. |
| Board Member #1: | Not necessary? What do you mean? |
| Staff #1 (louder now): | That we don’t need any coffee mugs. |
| Staff #2: | I don’t think coffee mugs is why people donate. |
| Board Member #2: | Aren’t we legally required to provide coffee mugs and tote bags? |
| Board Member #3: | Or at least bumper stickers? |
| Staff #1 (enunciating distinctly): | We. Do. Not. Need. Coffee. Mugs. |
| Board Member #1: | If we don’t give incentives, why will people donate? |
| Staff #2: | Because of what we do. |
| Board Member #2: | But . . . |
| Staff #2: | Otherwise we’re sort of having a fundraiser to pay for our coffee mugs, aren’t we? |
| Board Member #1: | But that’s just the way things are done. |
| Board Member #2: | The symphony has coffee mugs. |
| Board Member #3: | And tote bags. |
| Staff #1 (yelling now): | WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING COFFEE MUGS! |
| Board Member #4: | What about tote bags? |
Staff #1 stands up, knocking over his chair and exits, slamming the door. A shelf holding a decade’s worth of fundraising coffee mugs crashes to the floor.
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| Board Member #1: | I still think we need to offer them something. |
| Staff #2: | There’s always our overqualified blood, sweat and tears, for a minimum wage and non-existent benefits. |
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