The Bike Shop
Enter friends 1, 2, 3, 4, and me
Friend 1: Hello, we’re DIS students. We ordered bikes online.
Employee 1: Runs to close the door. DIS second register!
Customer 1: So I bring the bike back in the shop when I am finished? What about the key?
Cashier: You return bike outside of shop. You lock bike with key. You return key through the door. Have a nice day.
(To Friend 1) You’re with DIS? You pre-ordered online?
Customer 1: leaves without closing the door. Loud music is heard from the streets.
Employee 1: runs to close the door.
Friend 1: Yes. I ordered earlier today.
Employee 1: Anyone through DIS who has not pre-ordered come to the back computer!
Friend 4 and Me: Follow to the back.
Friend 4: presses commands on the computer.
Friend 4: I can’t figure out how to make the “@” sign on this computer?
Me: Have you tried shift + 4?
Friend 4: Yeah
Me: Try command, alt, and 4?
Friend 4: Oh cool that worked! Types more commands into computer. Shit my payment didn’t go through! Sorry this is taking so long!
Woman 1: enters shop, music blasts through the door. Is there a bathroom here?
Cashier: In the back.
Me: No problem. I think it’s assuming your billing address is in Denmark.
Cashier: God when will they stop that music?
Employee 1: runs to shut the door.
Friend 4: Oh, yeah, thanks. Leaves computer.
Me: Orders bike online, returns to front of store and waits in line.
Friend 3: Yes, I put in the order like an hour ago.
Cashier: Okay… here it is. Would you like to buy a helmet with it for 300?
Friend 3: Sure.
Cashier to employee 1: Get a woman’s bike from the back!
Employee 1: Does she want a basket?
Friend 3: Yeah, I’d like a basket.
Employee 1: Why do we have so many women needing bicycles today?
Cashier: Tell me the key and lock number on that bike.
Employee 1: Holds bike upside down and reads off some numbers.
Cashier: Take this, put it on the lock.
Employee 1: Takes the sticker and puts it on the bike. Exits with Friend 4
Customer 2: I’d like to help my host student rent a bike for the semester.
Cashier: Is she in DIS?
Customer 2: Yes, we just filled out the form on the computer.
Cashier: Show me her student ID?
Customer 2: We don’t have it with us. But she is from DIS
Cashier: If I do not have student ID and student number, I cannot give rent her a bike.
Customer 2: But she’s going to DIS.
Cashier: Right, but I need to put in her number so DIS can refund the bike if something happens.
Customer 2: I can email you her ID later.
Cashier: Yes you can do that, but the Bike would need to be registered under your name until then. (To Employee 1) Fix them with a bike.
Customer 3: Hi, I’d like to rent a bike. I’m with DIS.
Cashier: Did you pre-order?
Woman 1: returns from the bathroom and exits
Cashier: Uhh! That music!!
Employee 1: drops bike and runs to shut the door.
Cashier: yells in Danish.
Employee 1: replies in Danish.
Cashier: yells again in Danish.
Employee 1: picks up dropped bike.
Customer 3: I didn’t pre-order. Can I do that here?
Cashier: Yes, in the back. Next!
Me: Hello, I just pre-ordered in the back but I’m not sure if the computer was processing everything.
Cashier: Damn that computer. Spell your last name.
Me: spells last name
Cashier: You’re in the program but it says your order is cancelled. You can pay for it with a card here.
Employee 2: enters shop
Employee 2: Sorry I’m late! What work can I do?
Employee 1: runs to close the door and block off the music.
Cashier: Find a men’s bike from the back. Do you want a basket?
Me: That would be great!
Cashier: Get one with a basket! Would you like to buy an extra helmet?
Me: No, one helmet it good.
Cashier: laughs
Employee 2: You’re in luck. This bike comes with a lucky key! Do you like it?
Me: Oh, it’s wonderful!
Cashier: It is wonderful! Laughs
Employee 2: Hold this bike up for me so I can read the numbers.
Employee 1 holds bike and employee 2 recites. Cashier prints out a sticker and hands it to employee 1.
Employee 2: What are you doing! The sticker goes on the lock not the bike!
Cashier: yells at employee 1 in Danish.
Employee 3: Have you been putting the sticker in the wrong place this entire time?
All: yell in Danish.
Employee 1: We will just have to put the stickers on the locks from now on then.
Cashier: Please sign receipt.
Me: Signs receipt. Thank you!
Employee 3: Come with me to the back to get adjusted to the bike.
Me: Walks to the back.
Customer 4: Hi you work here? The computer isn’t working.
Me: No, but I’ve done it be -
Customer 4: No it’s fine.
Employee 3: This bike is broken. Ask the cashier for a new receipt.
Me: Returns to front of the shop.
Customer 3: Are you sure I’m not in the program? I just pre-ordered!
Cashier: Try again in the back. It didn’t go through.
Me: Hi, I was told to ask for a new receipt. The bike was broken.
Cashier: Here you go.
Me: Takes new receipt.
Employee 2: I found you a great bike! This one has a lucky number!
Me: Another lucky number?
Employee 2: Exactly! Take this to the back. Hands me a bike.
Employee 3: Wanna help me out?
Me: Yeah, what can I do?
Employee 3: Hold this bike upside down for me to read the numbers. Thanks!
Woman 2: Enters. Is there a bathroom here?
Cashier: To the back.
Employee 2: Did you hear that! They stopped playing the music!
All: Cheer.
Employee 3: So I can’t adjust the seat but it seems to fit you fine. Do you think the seat needs to be changed?
Me: No it feels fine, thanks.
Employee 3: Cool. To break, you press this lever but that only brakes the front tire. There is a secret break that you should mostly use by peddling backwards.
Me: Cool, got it.
Employee 2: And change gears when your moving but not peddling. Changing gears when you aren’t moving, like this, changes gears on the bike, is really bad for the bike.
Me: Alright. I also bought a helmet.
Employee 2: Oh yeah! Here, try this on.
Me: This helmet doesn’t have a buckle.
Employee 3: I got you this one. There is red on it so you can go even faster.
Me: Oh, wow. That’s… cool.
Me: Leaves store
Me: Shit where’d my friends go?
