weekends are a bike shop's busiest days. seems like weekdays are all about parts, track bikes, custom wheelbuilds, etc. weekends are all about complete off-the-shelf bikes. the weekday clientele consists of mostly students, work-from-home types, young people, and other non-9-to-5 jobbers. weekends are all about "i want to buy a bike, here-and-now" types. its typical. we make most of the weeks profit margin in those 2 days alone.
anyways, i sold some weird creepy foreign dude a bike today. he seemed like a typical knowitallthatreallyisquitemisinformed type. you know, they people that incorrectly answer their own questions with misinformation they heard about. but he ended up being quite a friendly fellow and bought a road bike and some other stuff. this conversation made me laugh:
guy: "do you have a bike?"
ken: "of course! i don't know if you could work in a bike shop and not ride bikes. . . well, i guess you could, but that would be weird. i have 4 bikes."
guy: "you must have the nicest bike in the whole city!"
ken: "haha. well unfortunately, we don't make enough money to have the nicest bikes in the city. but we do have ok ones and we love to ride them."
steve: "computer guys, CEO's, anyone that lives north of the bridge: now they have the nicest bikes."
ken: "yeah they do. they don't ride them as much, but they do own the nicest ones."
steve: "they look real nice hanging on their walls."
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