Room 3 at Nine

(Room 3, the small room with the broken blind. Thursday, twenty to nine.)

Ines: You're in my room.

Callum: I was setting up in here at eight. Where were you at eight?

Ines: On a train. Look, I booked this room in March. The sales conference is in here, nine to twelve.

Callum: Which sales conference?

Ines: The one with fourteen people from Leeds.

Callum: Fourteen? There are six chairs in here.

Ines: I asked for the big room. They said no.

Callum: Well, I've got the design review at nine. Also in here. Also booked.

Ines: The system doesn't double-book.

Callum: The system doesn't do anything. People do.

(Ines opens her laptop on the one free chair.)

Ines: Okay. Room 3, Thursday. Here's my booking. Here's yours.

Callum: Two bookings. Great.

Ines: Three bookings.

Callum: Sorry, three?

Ines: Nine to ten. The subject is booking rooms correctly.

Callum: Who booked that?

Ines: Our manager.

Callum: You're joking.

Ines: I'm not. Can we focus? In twenty minutes, three meetings start in a room with six chairs.

Callum: And one of them is about this.

Ines: One of them is about this.