MANDY

Take Amanda in the picture above...which I painted while she gave me a snippet of her life as the cleaning lady at the "Reeling and Rocking Motor Inn" just outside of Memphis.

Mandy, as her friends call her, originally showed up in Memphis in the 50's hoping to make it in the music industry as a country singing icon.  Today she couldn't even get an audition with "American Idol" she was so bad.  But she was skilled as a seamstress an got a job with some hip swinging dude named Elvis sowing sequins on his costumes.  The King liked her so much he made her the co-pilot on one of his two his private plane.... a 4 motor Electra.  Mandy loved to fly and fly she did until The King ran out of gas in August of "77.  Thats when the Red Dagger drove her to the "Reeling and Rocking" and her new position as sanitation director....or so her business card says. So if you see some over weight chick, pushing 80 but looking more like a 100, driving a blue '84 caddy convertible and wearing an airplane pilots cap.... give Mandy a thumbs up and a chorus  of "Are You Lonesome Tonight".