Fandom High School

"Good morning!" Annie cried out sunnily, from in front of a bank of bikes.

Of course, since everyone had totally gotten a message to meet outside today...they were actually real bikes. As were the very real helmets, and the very real baskets that could be affixed to the bikes, and the bells, and the streamers, and so on.

"So, first of all, today your final is that we're gonna take a bike ride around the island. Yes -- over the stairs." It would be a challenge! And she had training wheels if anyone needed them. "But also, these are yours to take home. Thanks for being such an awesome class -- everyone should have a bike, and now you all do, too."

One of the benefits of having a teacher who was also a gazillionaire who had no idea how to spend her money: she went a little above and beyond the whole 'maybe donuts for the last day of class?' thing.

"Morning, everyone!" Annie sang out, in a much better mood this week. And instead of cooped up in a classroom watching a movie -- which had not been in the syllabus, no -- Annie was instead in front of the same bank of bicycles from a couple weeks ago.

Except now they didn't have training wheels. There were training wheels available, off to the side over there, along with the associated brackets, bolts and tools that would be needed to affix them to a bike.

"So, today, we're going to work on actually riding these suckers without the training wheels," she said, cheerful enough as she wheeled a bike over to demonstrate. "You'll want to keep one foot on the ground, like this, until you're ready to start pedaling -- and then once you start pedaling, your momentum will keep you upright. And it's going to feel so weird, probably, and you might fall over, but it's okay. We're all just learning." And since it was the Danger Shop, no one would actually get hurt, anyway.

That would be a future class. Something to look forward to!