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[Dino and Coop singing]

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Olive’s big day has finally come. [Olive holding a box of her belongings]

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After many years of working a super boring job she hates, she’s going to make her life

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fun again.

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How?

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By opening her own tax office.

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Um…Olive has her own idea of "fun." [Olive looking excited about taxes]

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She already bought an office space that’s 35 feet long and 30 feet wide.

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Right now, it's just a big empty rectangle.

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But she’s meeting with an architect to come up with ways to break the area into all the

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rooms a tax office needs.

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So Olive and the architect start brainstorming all the different rooms her tax office might

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need….

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A waiting room for clients….

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…employee workspace…

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…bathrooms…

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…and most importantly a break room loaded with only the finest snacks.

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Y'know…like Cheez-its.

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Now that they’ve brainstormed what rooms they need, they have to figure out how they’re [Olive and architect discussing the design]

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going to fit them all into the office space.

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The first step is figuring out the rooms’ dimensions.

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Olive’s bathroom at home is about 8 feet by 6 feet, but how big is this bathroom gonna

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be?

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Will it have stalls or will it be a single bathroom?

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Should she have men’s room and a separate women’s room?

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Most ladies don’t like what men tend to do to toilet seats. [Woman walks into a toilet and looks unimpressed when she finds the seat left up]

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Yeah, two bathrooms it is.

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Olive wants a classy tax office, all right?

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With the help of the architect, Olive eventually decides the size of every room, making sure

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they all fit into the 35 by 30 dimensions of the space.

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The architect measures each room out to scale on the floor plan.

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And he also makes sure each room is labeled and identified.

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When they start putting in walls, it’s essential that every inch be accounted for ahead of time.

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If things don’t quite fit, Olive might end up with something crazy like a bathroom stall [Worker sat at a desk with a toilet right next to him]

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in the workplace.

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And that would be unpleasant for everyone involved.

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The architect has even made sure there’s room for a water feature in the waiting area.

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He thought it was tacky overkill, but Olive insisted.

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But he did draw the line when she asked if the water feature could feature a water-spitting

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statue of a centaur.

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C'mon, Olive.

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There are boundaries. [Architect looks unimpressed with Olive's idea]

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