Phil & Monique: Facts

FADE IN:

INT. MUSEUM CONFERENCE - GRAB-AND-GO CAFE - DAY

Sitting at a corner table are MONIQUE, exhibition developer wise beyond her years, and PHIL, anxious independent museum consultant.

MONIQUE: My client wants to add more facts to the exhibition we’re developing.

PHIL: Mm-hm. Facts are good. [Cautiously sips matcha]

MONIQUE: Are they?

PHIL: [Raises eyebrows]

MONIQUE: I mean, facts are fine. But people don’t come to exhibitions for facts. Did anyone ever say, “Mommy, Mommy, let’s go to the museum and get some facts?”

PHIL: Yuck.

MONIQUE: Yeah, right? Us museum people, we all think that the more facts we get in there, the better. But watch our visitors. They stop at big, cool things first. Then videos are second. Facts are a distant third. Or tenth.

PHIL: Grass.

MONIQUE: What?

PHIL: This matcha you got me tastes like grass.

MONIQUE: I thought you were agreeing with me about facts.

PHIL: I agree with the fact that matcha tastes like grass.

MONIQUE: I’m moving to another table.

PHIL: Wait, you can have my matcha.

FADE OUT.

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