quit her job at ICI and stepped in to
help him run the workshop. She
brought her office skills to the
garage full-time and started keeping
the books, making the schedule,
balancing the accounts. And it was
going well, until Abel started to feel
like she was running his business.
People started commenting on it as
well. Clients were getting their cars
on time, vendors were getting paid
on time, and they would say, “Hey,
Abie, this workshop is going so
much better now that your wife has
taken over.” That didn’t help.
We lived in the workshop for
close to a year, and then my mom