15/08/2022
Dear Friends and all the amazing people who followed the page or that I’ve luckily met and was blessed to be able to provide maintenance, repairs, modifications or checks for. I hope you have all been going well or getting by the best you can at the moment whatever the circumstances or experiences you’re having to overcome, we’ve had some tough ol times to endure of late, I send good vibes and love to anyone struggling to even muster up the energy and strength to shower or brush their teeth even let alone keeping on keeping on and putting one foot in front of the other some days during our lifes quest to better our experiences and memories for family, close friends, loved ones and ourselves. Sorry to go abit off topic but I tend to often wear my heart on my sleeve….sometimes too much.
Back to the subject and it’s with a heavy heart I need to stop lying to myself and inform you that APC Automotive is to be no more, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support and jobs over the years no matter how big or small. I won’t bore you all with the details but I feel I owe all the people with missed calls and messages to the business of late an apology for the poor communication and I wanted to let you all know it was nothing personal and it was purely from burn out and from my struggles with depression and anxiety over the covid years from not handling the news of my absent Fathers death at the start of all the Rona dramas and probably also resurfacing childhood trauma from his passing after years of no contact have found me depleted of the mental strength or capacity anymore to keep trying to be a Sole trader Mobile mechanic whilst finally trying to address my mental issues and current limitations. I don’t think it’s the complete end of my automotive endeavours at all and I look forward to updating you all of my new achievements when the time comes but for now it’s the best thing for me to do as I’ve lost the passion and enjoyment for general servicing and repairs the last year and most importantly as I purely just need to take some time out from work to finally allow myself to click into gear and focus on rebuilding my self worth and confidence and to start writing the next chapter to my lifes journey and finally allowing myself to truely embark and embrace the exciting adventure of becoming the best Adam, Cliffo, Gibbo, Ad’s there’s been yet!
Im sincerely sorry for any inconveniences I have caused with my poor efforts towards the business at times and especially of late with forgotten quotes, follow up minor repairs or even just a reply or call back etc. I will be in contact with a few of you tomorrow about upcoming jobs and getting them finalised for you.
For all your automotive needs moving forward I have absolutely no qualms in recommending and trusting:
Rob Wells Peninsula Autowrx
Wells automotive, Mornington
Bridgestone Mornington
Bridgestone Cranbourne
Battery world Mornington
For almost all and any of your automotive supplies please see the legends at Bursons Rosebud, if you’re after more of your everyday hardware items the absolute superstars at Mitre 10 Rye will be all over it.
To the APC faithful thank you for your time and understanding!
Much love and wishing prosperity to you all.
Yours Sincerely,
Adam and Bonnie 🐶
If I don’t get back to you asap please understand it’s not for any other reason other than I’m simply just not currently in the best headspace to do so, i mean no ill intent and I promise to respond to anyone and everyone during the near future when I can✌🏻
In the hopes of helping maybe even just one other soul as it has done for me I’d like to sign off for now and leave you all with the lyrics to a very meaningful song to me
HORRORSHOW “On the one hand”
Destination unknown, headphones, wander on in my zone. Like the light's on but nobody's home, I'm all alone
See some days I can't explain this pain in my soul
Or the feeling there's no place I can go
Cos everywhere I'm met with hearts that's so cold and stares so vacant
Lonely souls fixated on bringing home the bacon
Got the folks in my city all road raging
Stressed cutting each other off and overtaking
Tryna get ahead of the next man, afraid we'll never make it
Afraid of what we don't have
But I'm a break free of that program
And live or die by my own hand
So on the one I count my problems, the other count my blessings
And despite moments of second guessing
I stay repping for my fam and my section
Mic checking with some living legends, so check it
… I got somewhere to sleep and I got love and
When I see somebody with nothing
It makes me count all of my problems on one hand
It makes me count all of my problems on one hand
I got shelter, plenty to eat and
When I see a fella in need it
Makes me wanna count all my problems on one hand
Count all my problems on one hand
… I hit the ground running with the devil to my back
Seen enough blood in the first part of my life to last me
I put a wall around my misery
Past it
I don't wanna be the one that dies trying to grasp it
Hope
Thought to be a sunken old boat used to throw stones at it from the shore
Makin' jokes I guess I wasn't really ready for the sunshine
Took a hard hit to have me grindin' on the front line
Every single little twist I'm proud of
Probably wouldn't be the same without 'em
Turned a dead bird into a dragon
Living like I never would imagine
Breaking through the lane
Countin' up my blessings like change
Needle on the wax stead of sticking out my veins
Built a lighthouse out of pain
Guiding in the ships from the rain
… I got somewhere to sleep and I got love and
When I see somebody with nothing
It makes me count all of my problems on one hand
It makes me count all of my problems on one hand
I got shelter, plenty to eat and
When I see a fella in need it
Makes me wanna count all my problems on one hand
Count all my problems on one hand
… You could have ninety-nine problems like the best alive
But when I line up my problems I got less then five
I'm blessed and I gotta stress that I recognise that
"Wherever you are, wherever you're at"
Because my day job's spitting raps, paid for flipping tracks
When I consider that, man I consider giving back
Cause I could be aloof about this and that
But I got a roof over my head like a fitted cap, now isn't that
Something else man? Nothing else is better than
Being settled, it's like heaven man
And of course you can act like you've got a lot of problems
But you can never act like you ain't got a lot of options
And this ain't for those who've had a lot of loss
Or had a lot of obstacles, or had a lotta knocks
That makes me giggle like SNL, you're kidding right?
… I got somewhere to sleep and I got love and
When I see somebody with nothing
It makes me count all of my problems on one hand
It makes me count all of my problems on one hand
I got shelter, plenty to eat and
When I see a fella in need it
Makes me wanna count all my problems on one hand
Count all my problems on one hand
