somewhat paraphrased, of course, due to length

Hannah! They're working you like a mule! Sit back down.

No, sit down. I want to tell you a story.

(Pulls open random book next to her, flips through pages. Proceeds to not look at book.)

"Once upon a time, there was a little mule who was always working. No matter how much the mule worked, it never got a day off. Not Passover...not, um, Yom Kippur, not any other holiday. It just worked and worked and worked and worked and worked and worked and worked. And then it died. The end."

Do you know what the moral of this is?

-Don't ask off for Passover?

NO! Don't be the mule!

-Tiffany, at the end of lunch, after I told her I needed to get back to work