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One thing that tears me apart about this buisiness is the customers that I do like and then get close to.
Couldnt sleep last night so it wasnt until 8 am that I actually crashed out. Was woken up at 1 by a call from my sister. My aunt died this morning. They assume suicide which makes sense considering her husband and all three kids had committed suicide years ago. One thing I really hate about getting older is seeing all your friends and family die. Just a couple years ago I watched my father, aunt and grandfather all die in the same year and now this year I lost a very close and dear friend in June. He was a customer and a good guy so we just became friends. We did thanksgiving together and sometimes he would just hang out at the shop. Was a war veteran that did so much for wounded vets in the Waco area. I called him because he loves hot rods and I had a 34 Ford in the shop so invited him over to check it out. He died not 20 minutes after hanging up the phone with me. I was the last person he ever spoke to.
Then last month I lose yet another dear friend that was just a customer but I became close with her and her family. Watched cancer take her arm and watched the decline. Her husband told me the AC stopped working in their Explorer and knowing she needs the AC and that the medical is just killing them I went ahead and overhauled it for free. When they came and picked it up she was in so much pain she winced when I gave her a hug. Husband said that was the first time she smiled in months and wanted to get out of the house just to thank me. I cried for the rest of that day and then 2 days latter her husband called to tell me she passed in her sleep that night. I was just at their home for dinner last night and was cheering the kids up teaching them how to fly drones and gave a small one to each of them. Was feeling pretty good and then this happened.
Also just a couple days ago one of my other customers died in her sleep too. She was a wylie old lady. Real firecracker. Fixed income and needed brakes bad on her car. She was a good customer but didnt have the cash and had no family left. So I did the job and gave her cost on everything and told her just pay half next payday and the other half the next month. Was only a couple hundred dollars. Well I didnt hear from her on the third which is very unlike her so I called. Was her landloard that answered and said she passed away a few days prior.
So much death of people I really like and who do so much for others. It is just really wearing me down.
Couldnt sleep last night so it wasnt until 8 am that I actually crashed out. Was woken up at 1 by a call from my sister. My aunt died this morning. They assume suicide which makes sense considering her husband and all three kids had committed suicide years ago. One thing I really hate about getting older is seeing all your friends and family die. Just a couple years ago I watched my father, aunt and grandfather all die in the same year and now this year I lost a very close and dear friend in June. He was a customer and a good guy so we just became friends. We did thanksgiving together and sometimes he would just hang out at the shop. Was a war veteran that did so much for wounded vets in the Waco area. I called him because he loves hot rods and I had a 34 Ford in the shop so invited him over to check it out. He died not 20 minutes after hanging up the phone with me. I was the last person he ever spoke to.
Then last month I lose yet another dear friend that was just a customer but I became close with her and her family. Watched cancer take her arm and watched the decline. Her husband told me the AC stopped working in their Explorer and knowing she needs the AC and that the medical is just killing them I went ahead and overhauled it for free. When they came and picked it up she was in so much pain she winced when I gave her a hug. Husband said that was the first time she smiled in months and wanted to get out of the house just to thank me. I cried for the rest of that day and then 2 days latter her husband called to tell me she passed in her sleep that night. I was just at their home for dinner last night and was cheering the kids up teaching them how to fly drones and gave a small one to each of them. Was feeling pretty good and then this happened.Also just a couple days ago one of my other customers died in her sleep too. She was a wylie old lady. Real firecracker. Fixed income and needed brakes bad on her car. She was a good customer but didnt have the cash and had no family left. So I did the job and gave her cost on everything and told her just pay half next payday and the other half the next month. Was only a couple hundred dollars. Well I didnt hear from her on the third which is very unlike her so I called. Was her landloard that answered and said she passed away a few days prior.
So much death of people I really like and who do so much for others. It is just really wearing me down.
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