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How To Do Everything

A Man and His Bike

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

How to get service at a restaurant and a man learns to ride a bike without training wheels.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know when you're at a restaurant and you're hungry you want to order but no one who works there is paying any attention to you.

0:08.3

This happens to me all the time.

0:09.7

It's not you.

0:10.9

Tricia and Cassie have a solution to this problem.

0:14.7

So we were at a restaurant in our little town.

0:17.8

It was quite full.

0:18.6

It was a Sunday morning, a post church crowd.

0:21.4

A lot of customers.

0:23.0

So we saw our waitress.

0:25.0

She took our coffee and milk orders and went away and then we didn't see her for quite some time. And we sat there very hungry and I turned to Kathy and I said I don't I don't

0:38.4

think the waitress is coming and she said let's just act as bored as possible and maybe she'll come back over I felt a little

0:45.6

bad I didn't want to make the waitress feel terrible you liked it a lot I didn't want to make

0:50.6

her feel bad but you know you know, so we did it.

0:54.2

And we did it very theatrically.

0:57.4

She came right over.

0:59.8

I've done it a couple times before with my friends you just like lean your face on your hand and

1:06.7

throw a little sighs in there and that's pretty much it.

1:11.4

So I imagine the sigh has to be pretty pretty dramatic can we hear an example

1:16.0

of what that's like mom you do it well this is I felt bad doing this I felt like

1:22.3

we were a little overly theatrical when we did this together but it did work so I'll try to

1:26.9

reenact for you it was something like this.

1:28.8

Yeah that's exactly it. I'm so hungry. I felt bad making her feel bad.

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