Lunchroom Negotiator Prints

"I'll trade you a peanut butter sandwich for your meds."

Garlic Free Zone.

'Anyone who opposes the plan I'm about to propose please signify by saying 'I resign.''

'Broccoli is biodegradable, you know, in case you want to throw it out before I eat it.'

'Okay mum, I'll eat it all up. But I doubt I'll grow big and strong on this muck!'

"No, four glasses of water was enough. . . now I have to go to the bathroom!"

'So we're agreed: we'll go to mediation.'

Lunch Meet

"He's a fussy eater."

"To avoid trouble, I've brought in a troubleshooter."

"Nice going, Larry. They're going in after your liverwurst and sardine sandwich that fell behind the fridge last month."

'I understand yours is a highly coveted position in this company.'

"Hi Mike, how's the Leprosy research going?"

'What do you mean, it's good for me and I'll like it? That sounds like a contradiction in terms.'

"I always find the Contract Attorney's Special amusing. The price is always in extremely fine print."

"Tonight the covers stay on my side."

"I wanted to give Christmas bonuses but that would violate the separation of church and business."

Just remember, don't claim for lunch unless I was with you.

'Life, like lunch, is full of difficult choices.'

"We're offering twenty million plus incentives over a four-year period, Mrs. Morton. Can Timmy come out and play?"

'It's just a scratch. I can still handle dessert.'

'5 pounds of liver ought to be enough to get your husband to take you out for dinner.'

Counterproposals

No Consensus Beyond This Point.

If you have 5 dogs, 3 will be asleep.

'Here she comes with the one o'clock news.'

"I say it's genetically altered, and I say the hell with it."

"I'll trade you one note of loving maternal encouragement for a bag of corn chips."

"Here's the plan. I use white noise to cover your snoring and you use earplugs to cover the white noise."

"No!"

Okay, little miss I-Hate-Everything-We're-Having-For-Dinner, do want the pouting or non-pouting section?

'They wouldn't give me a raise so I demanded my own coffee mug.'

'It says right here in the ingredients, 'this product contains no yucky stuff'.'

Thanks for cutting short your Bermuda holiday to quell the boardroom row.

'How about instead of the $383,000 I owe you in back taxes, I give you some free advertising space on my web site?'