Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Nothing personal partner its just business, I just don't work or play well with others

Before ya'll start bitching and thinking I mean any ill will or that I hate, dislike, or anything of the sort of Rick my partner at our shop, don't even go there. I have the utmost respect and love of a road brother and associate of Rick and he is one of the best mechanics I have ever seen , as well as one of the best fabricators I have worked with, but with that said, it's just came to the point that while one may want to continue to put Band Aids on it, or try to smooth things over , his vision for the shop or a shop, and mine are so many light years apart, that even if someone were to bestow or infuse millions of dollars into it, there's just no way the operation as it is can work. While Rick may feel he's been paying for 90% if not 100% of the project , and he is right there. I was SOL, after Nathen and Joey raped me, money wise that trying to catch up on bills, and all plus doing my duty to the club in regards to the clubs radio gig, there has not been the funds in the kitty, for me to contribute much in the money department, but gaining business, making sacrifices to draw in more REAL business has been my number one focus. Up to this stage there has been a financial challenge, however and depending on how damn fast the US postal service is, The infusion of $1,000.00 a month from the pre final settlement of the Montgomery Foundation(Trust) will rectify the back rents, power and gas bills, and phone bills. 
As I have stated many times in the past and in so many ways on so many news blogs here, the only way a good partnership works is if both partners have the same vision and passion of a business, no matter what that business is, in this case a redneck hot rod bike/truck, shop with the Dukes-of-Hazzard theme is mine. Rick has another idea, and as such , to remain friends, its time for at least one of us to gracefully bow out, and say " Hey wished it could have worked, but its time to part ways." In this case the lease of the shop is in my name, the responsibility is mine, so as bad as it is, I have to firmly tell Rick adios. Come the first of March, I'll get Mr. Voss paid up, get the electricity and heat gas paid up, and renew the operation, as a Hazzard County named shop, and only two names on the damn door, Hazzard County Choppers and yes Highway Hooker Toewing, more on that in another entry. 
One thing I have learned the hard way, partnerships are just not for me, I don't work nor play well with each other, and with this as well as say a musical rock band, when the leads of the band can't any longer make music it's time to call it quits and each shake hands and go do our own thing. Personally I like Rick, business wise it'll never mix well. 
Now some think I'm quiting entirely, not so, and to the little fartknockers that think its really funny, putting diesel fuel in my car, was not cool. Which brings me to the other half of this. My reputation and all here in Evanston, Wyoming, is not good. In fact there are people that would just asoon shoot me as look at me. Why who knows, and I can remember the same shit elsewhere, Maybe it is me? But for many I'm just too much of a rebel, too wyld, for many and that rubs people the wrong way. All I know is I have given everything I have to too many people and been too kind to all the ungrateful dope heads, drugged out, skanks, 30 dollar Sharries , many times to where I have had to beg my Bishop, cable company, and others to cover my ass. No more, its Patricks time and time for all things Hazzard County's light to shine. 
So Rick my partner, its nothing personal, but we just can't be partners in business. 
TTYLY