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JadedSnapper has been banned from SnoozeCityFC but is determined to get in. He is at the photographers’ entrance. ClubSteward is there waiting. JS is walking rather awkwardly.

JadedSnapper: Erm, hi! I’m the…cartoonist!

ClubSteward: Hey, don’t I recognise you?

JS: [strokes his GrouchoMarx moustache and nose set] Who, me, nope, don’t think so..I’m just a cartoonist, never been here before…

ClubSteward: So why are you at the photographers’ entrance? Photographers are banned!

JS: Oh! Shit, err, just accident I think…

ClubSteward: [points to JS' belly] And what’s that massive bulge?

JS: Erm, well… [puts on a high voice] I’m pregnant!

ClubSteward: So that’s not a 400mm lens, two camera bodies, a laptop, and a stool?

JS: No, I’m eight months pregnant!

ClubSteward: What’s with the tash?

JS: [scolding] I’m very sensitive about it!

ClubSteward: Oh, Sorry about that…ma’am. That’s okay then, in you go…

Suddenly a shout from behind JS

ClubPhotographer: Stop that man!

ClubSteward: Err, she’s not a man, and she’s very sensitive ’bout that bushy tash!

JS: Hey! I mean, hey!

ClubPhotographer: [with a theatrical sweep, removes the GrouchoMarx mask, shocked gasps appear from seemingly nowhere] You see!

ClubSteward: Hey! That doesn’t mean she’s not pregnant!

ClubPhotographer: [unzips JS' coat. A flight case, a laptop bag, a backpack and a stool crash to the floor] You see! A photographer

ClubSteward: A-ha! Now I recognise you! You’re from the EveningSnooze!

JS: I think I’ve been rumbled!

ClubPhotographer: Too right you have! You’re not allowed in. Only I am. The EveningSnooze have to buy my pictures.

JS: But you’re not a professional photographer…

ClubPhotographer: I am on Saturdays!

JS: I stand corrected. So that must mean you get paid?

ClubPhotographer: Seeing the glorious SnoozeCity is payment enough!

JS: So, you don’t get paid as such?

ClubPhotographer: [defiantly] I get an advent calendar at Christmas, an egg at Easter and a mug on my birthday

JS: Well in that case I do apologise for disputing your status. You don’t appear to be carrying much kit though?

ClubPhotographer: I obviously don’t have the huge lenses you ‘professionals’ have. So I use this one it’s all I need, [proudly unveils lens]

JS: But that’s a JamJar -

ClubPhotographer: – Well I’ve cleaned it out!

JS: Fair enough. So given that the club are selling your pictures that you’ve taken on your kit in your own time I can only assume that you’re getting a cut of their profits

ClubPhotographer: You ‘professionals’ are all about the money

JS: Fancy that