I was thinking last night about this. I feel like IA is my family. Not because I get a chance to hang out all that often, but because I spend all day here 6 days a week. I'm on a lot of other forums, but I really don't post on them all that much. Really just to check out what everyone is talking crap about this week. I know that we have a shop and that we have to present some sort of professionalism. The problem is that I'm me. I try real hard not to be me for the sake of the shop.
I guess a lot of times we sound like assholes to the rest of the world...but it is really hard being us. That sounds kind of whiney and I hate it, but it's the truth. We pay our bills with money earned at the shop. None of us 3 here are independently wealthy. A lot of times we think we aren't going to be able to make it. Our percieved value is a lot bigger than we actually are. I know that is definatley a blessing for a business that has only been open for 4.5 years, so I'm not complaining. BUT with that comes a lot of crap! I had a conversation once with a fellow who thought that we have tons of techs, tuners and professionals running around here. He thought that at the snap of a finger we could get a part here. He thuoght that's why we have fast cars. He didn't understand that this is our garage...just like it's yours at home. We just pay more money to have one as big as oursWe are a small fish in a big ass pond! We have 2 professionals running around here...their names ar Dan and Brandon
. People think that because we have a shop, that we are ballers. When in all actuallity, because of this shop we are broke! People just know our name now. Kind of like Outkast back in the day
I'll leave ya'll with this
Got stopped at the mall the other day
Heard a call from the other way
that I just came from, some nigga was sayin somethin
talkin bout "Hey man, you remember me from school?" smoke some
Naw not really but he kept smilin like a clown
facial expression lookin silly
And he kept askin me, what kind of car you drive, I know you paid
I know y'all got buku of hoes from all them songs that y'all done made
And I replied that I had been goin through tha same thing that he had
True I got more fans than the average man but not enough loot to last me
to the end of the week, I live by the beat like you live check to check
If you don't move yo' foot then I don't eat, so we like neck to neck
Yes we done come a long way like them Slim ass cigarettes
from Virginia, this ain't gon stop so we just gonna continue
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