My Darling Diary: Good Morning! Guess what, I have bought Rosetta Stone in French so I can talk to you in your native language. I took 2 years of French in High School and 1 in College, but have forgot most. To do something besides cars, I am going to work on becoming bi-lingual again. To me that would be fun. I will keep you up on my progress.

I am curious, do I have any readers who do not know me? If so, please leave a comment.

Remember many posts ago, the gal who hit me with her car??? Well, she called! She just wanted to complain about the crazy "White" lady, (me) and that she was such a fine Christian Black Woman. Finally, my guy on the phone asked her why she kept talking about Black and White. The Christian Black woman got mad and hung up.

I have a "bad ass" car in my shop right now. It is a brand new charger with a 10 grand custom paint job on it. It is painted 3 stage maroon on one half and gold on the other. the half starts right down the middle of the hood. A different color on each side. You open the trunk, it opens with hydolics, there is a massive stereo system and a tv. That is for street parties. They have a pretty hard core decal on it and a custom license plate. It is in out shop because they want the 4 bullet holes fixed. It is at least a 45 and both sides of the car and missed the two front seat occupants by 6 inches each. By the grace of God, they are alive. They must know it as they want the bullet holes fixed asap and the color changed and then they plan to sell the car. You can ruminate on your own conclusions. In the mean time, I got a call from a police chief friend of mine and one of his crown vic cruisers was rear ended by a well to do family in town. Fully insured. Of course, there was a police report and in the course of the accident inspection, drugs were found in their car. So, Mon or Tues I will have the cruiser in my shop to fix. I plan to park it next to the "Bad Ass" car just for irony. What a world.

We are having in our employees next week as long as we can. phones are starting to ring a little more. We hope, we pray to get some business this next week. We all need to pray for the economy and that people have enough faith in it to be able to spend.

I am still thinking on buying the other Maaco in town. I cannot go next week, but I plan to drive out and look at it next week. I will keep you posted.

God Bless all, be safe, love one another. remember the 912 project.

Ms. Lynn Moore

Madame! The snow is falling and falling and falling. We have not had one customer in two days. We have sent our crew home two days in a row now. We are all aching from the need of work. We know the flood gates will open soon, as we get close to tax time, we get very busy. Can we hurry it up while we are still open?????

Not much crazy stuff going on these days to share.....The cars are coming out beautiful the Italian booths are worth what I spent on them. My corporate rep was here this week and gave us a few ideal to get more cars, but first they have to walk in the door! I called my largest used car lot and he told me he has not had a shipment of cars in two months. I do not know enough about Obama to blame him like everyone else is, so, I am holding tight and keeping faith in Our Lord. He did not bring us this far to fail now.

We awarded our employee of the month today. It was Greg the estimator. He was quite surprised. Now the pressure is on him. EVERYONE is looking to him to get the work in the shop.

I have been thinking for two days of buying a second shop. (If any of you are sane, shoot me!) There is one I know of for sale and I am not sure I really want another shop to compete with. It is a dump and would be a full renovation like this one was, but Hugh and I were not sure we were up to that so soon after this one. I shall continue to ruminate. Since I have no life, why not. It would just be less time between getting into bed and going to sleep. You know, that 15 minutes!

Lets all remember how hard it is on some of our brothers right now while we get annoyed at our bosses or jobs. I promise to share the next story I have that will make you laugh.

WAIT, WAIT! got one, I took a man home the other morning and he gave me $50.00 to give to Abby. He said two years ago, on December 30th, he gave a waitress a $20 tip and told her to go buy a lottery ticket. She won 1.6 million, so every December 30th he gives a gal a tip and tells her to go buy lottery tickets. This year it was Abby. She did exactly as she was told and won $2. She split it with him, and he promptly bought another with his one dollar. They have had a great laugh and a fun time buying lottery tickets. Who knows................

Lynn Moore