ISFMA the Blog

Today began as normal, my wife put the kids on the bus with their lunches and then got into the car to go to work . I keep thanking God that she took the Escalade instead of the mini-coupe . She didn’t know it then, but with everything that would happen that day it was probably what saved her life. When the Disaster Recovery was completed, we received pictures of the damage and couldn’t believe our eyes . It was a gorgeous morning in Chicago, without a cloud in the sky so I didn’t mind taking the mini-coupe . My office is right down the road a little ways so I always take the mini-coupe . It seemed as if an instant after my thinking that it was a beautiful morning the winds started blowing and my car basically started shaking and veering all over the road . If I would have put the radio on, like I did every morning, I would have known about the tornado, as I found out later that the warnings were everywhere . Unfortunately I was not listening to the radio, instead I was listening to an audio book . Mara had just gotten to town and the thing hit right in the center of downtown. The tornado made a path of destruction through the epicenter of downtown . The tornado took off part of the Nieman Marcus building as well as the Trump Tower . My wife stopped the car in the middle of the road and ran into an old building to hide in the basement, which thankfully saved her life . Almost two weeks later they found the Escalade and returned it in the condition it was in, which it might as well have been a matchbox .
I was really happy that Joe’s business was booming. We sold more cars last year than any other dealer in the Madison area. The one downfall of winning such a great award as a car salesman is, how does one retain customers . We decided that we needed a computer system to organize all of the customers information, where we would know where they live, what they bought, and how long ago they bought it . The method we are using right now is outdated and probably horribly inaccurate, as it is all on paper and it is only what the customer purchased and what date they purchased it . Recently, though, we’ve obtained so many new customers that we’re running out of room, both in the folders and in the office! Joe and the other salespeople have been racking their brains. It was starting to get frustrating, because we haven’t been able to find anyone in the area who could help us get this thing going at a reasonable offer. One lazy afternoon we had a guy walk in with a briefcase, looking very professional . We all wondered what he was doing here because it was obvious he wasn’t in the store to buy a car, he eventually told us that he was there with a Online Data Storage. He mapped everything out for us and even suggested a store that we could buy the software from, he was amazing with us and I don’t think we could have pulled any of it off without him ! Maybe Mike will come to us when he needs a new car. Has anyone seen the coffee machine?

“Look at this, will you!” Brian was pretty stoked about his music. He’s got over 30,000 artists and tunes on his computer. I have an outdated computer so I am happy if I have the opportunity to download music, let alone pictures and such . I couldn’t believe Brian’s collection. Brian doesn’t have a favorite alt rock group. He loves every one of them, from the New Pornographers to Death Cab for Cutie and back. “This is the perfect Online Data Storage!” He wailed, pronouncing the last two words very slowly and emphatically.