Would You Like some Cherry Pie

A few years ago a man came on the car show scene with a sly smile and a few kind words. He became a fixture at many events and started a network of enthusiasts that all listened with great intent at his stories that sounded like they should make sense. We all watched in awe at his opinions on the scene and we all thought this is a good guy.

I myself called him friend and treated him as one should treat a friend, with respect, with honesty. Everyone who came to know him did the same and he in kind. He started a movement to keep the car show scene straight and discredited those shows that got it all wrong.

Then as though his ego grew like a tumor he became arrogant and thought himself the Authority of the Scene. He began to openly argue that his opinion was more important than all others.
He has since thought himself a self styled leader in this hobby, that we all know and love. But now he has turned on several of his friends, because they have disagreed with his opinion or stated their own as loud as he.

I have been on the scene since 1992, with a more than avid participation in car shows and have no recollection of his presence on the scene up until last year. His credentials show nothing to prove he has more knowledge of the scene than I. Yet I am treated like a fool because I have chosen to disagree with his opinions at times.

He has railed against the system of voting and judging at shows and we have agreed. Now he has contradicted himself by allowing an award program that works on the voting system he so hated but now embraces. He has begun to say one thing and do another, when caught, denying his involvement.

His publications via print and internet are filled with his own ideas yet nothing is printed in these works that can be used to verify any of his findings and claims with facts.

Today was the last straw that I will take from him and anyone who reads this knows the meaning in my words. Today was the last time he will hear my opinion on any subject he wants to mention. This time I will walk away knowing that I was used as a target, because I did not agree with a definition and gave people a look at a different view, while still agreeing with him and backing his opinion on the subject. Yet he took my statements out of context and made me out the fool. With a condescending tone in his words, his feeble attempt at an apology will not be accepted now or in the future.

My friendship with this man has been surprisingly short and regrettably now it has ended. By his own words he has struck a blow that has ended our days and caused an opinion that will eventually be his demise.

Respect and honor evidently mean nothing to him, as he has treated someone who treated him with respect like a piece of gum on the bottom of his shoe.

We are done Mr.Bill, We are done...