# Every request for a café's toilet key is now rung up as a sale

> A new Slop University signage poster sorts the requests for a strip-mall café's customers-only toilet key into five kinds of asker and sets out the café's undertaking to ring up every key handed over as a sale.

Whoever asks for the key, the till is to be told. That is the standing
arrangement a strip-mall café has entered into following a signage piece from
the School of Emergent Priorities, published today for bus-stop panels and
campus digital screens in support of the Master of Priority Studies.

The piece draws on the Spoon Ledger, a register kept by Doctoral Candidate Tove
Ilesanmi at the end of a counter where the customers-only toilet key hangs from
a wooden spoon. Each request is entered under one of five kinds of asker,
according to what the person already is to the till: a relationship, in the
Ledger's terms, that runs from long-standing to not yet begun. The café reads
the entry at close of business and rings up every key handed over as a sale of
the kind it was sorted into, with no provision for an ordinary exception.

> What a person is to the till turned out to be a longer conversation than any
> of us had planned for.
>
> --- Doctoral Candidate Tove Ilesanmi, School of Emergent Priorities

The poster was developed with Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist, Director of
the Master of Priority Studies, who said the program was the natural home for
"learning to keep a spoon in view". The School regards the Ledger as a
significant addition to its work on how everyday arrangements settle into
standing commitments, and is proud to see the café carry the scheme into its
daily trading.

The full advertisement is available from the University's research repository
under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.nc1bp0.