The Laminator: The Confidential Queue

THE LAMINATOR | FICTIONAL SATIRE. All institutions, scenes and dialogue are invented. This new unnumbered story does not alter the numbered episode archive.

Full visual and dialogue transcript. Read the nine panels left to right, then top to bottom.

Panel 1. At a pharmacy collection counter, leadership addresses a customer while Stan and the navy mascot watch. Dialogue — Manager: Our privacy policy is public.

Panel 2. The customer in a purple coat gestures towards other waiting customers. Dialogue — Customer: So is this conversation.

Panel 3. Leadership raises both gloved hands in a public appeal to stop listening. Dialogue — Manager: Everybody, stop listening!

Panel 4. Stan suggests another arrangement across the counter. Dialogue — Stan: Offer somewhere discreet.

Panel 5. Leadership wonders how to advertise privacy. Dialogue — Manager: How will we announce that?

Panel 6. The customer points towards a consultation doorway marked private. Dialogue — Customer: A small sign would do.

Panel 7. Stan addresses the customer directly. Dialogue — Stan: Would you prefer privacy?

Panel 8. The customer smiles beside the private consultation doorway. Dialogue — Customer: Yes, thank you.

Panel 9. Leadership turns back towards the customer, still seeking newsletter material. Dialogue — Manager: No details for the newsletter?