I liked this, it was quirky and funny. Only complaint would be the puncuation, it caused me to stumble through the story. For example: “Any suggestions?” replied dave, “well for one you could …” At first it seemed as dave was saying both lines because of the comma after dave; I had to reread it to get the gist of who said what.
Yeah, you really need to double check the grammar rules for quotations. I couldn’t follow the entire second half because of it. Shorthand trick for clearing it up is to simply start a new line each time a different character begins speaking. It takes an extra character or two, but it is the standard convention for dialog and makes it crystal clear that another person has begun speaking.