The Harp Department Requests Quieter Meetings

A fictional comedy from CyberBabiez. The characters and events are invented.

The harp department held meetings beside twenty harps. Every gesture produced an accidental flourish.

When the chair asked for objections, a sleeve brushed the strings and supplied a magnificent one.

Halo took notes but struggled to distinguish decisions from background music.

The committee proposed a special harp-proof meeting room. Then a protective sleeve budget. Then a subcommittee to investigate sleeves.

Halo suggested meeting somewhere without harps.

The room fell silent, except for one final dramatic chord.

They moved to the stationery cupboard and finished in six minutes.

The minutes were clear. The budget was unchanged. Everyone had time for lunch.

Back in the department, the harps sounded especially lovely.

It turned out that music benefited from being played on purpose, and meetings benefited from not having a soundtrack.

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