Southside Auto Repair Shop, one of the best local businesses you can’t drink in on Southland Drive, is up to their lifts with major bracket problems this week. In fact, a swarm of automobiles arrived late Thursday night and according to second shift mechanic Ernie Caudill, “they kept coming in droves all weekend.”

We stopped to correct Caudill, and mentioned that they’re actually called cars. He explained that they had so many vehicles they began to overflow all the way over in Old KY Chocolates parking lot. Caudill held up a bracket from an SUV from Arizona. “Some of these are so off I’m not so sure I can fix them,” he said.

Caudill says that brackets often bend or outright break in March. “Something in the air, I guess,” he said. He opened the hood of a Cavalier with Virginia plates. “The driver thought this one would go all the way. But she hit a pothole in Maryland.”

The garage is booked up for the next two days. Caudill said he had to turn away a Grippo’s salesman earlier this morning. “I told him he should just wait until I could get around to it instead of heading back to Cincinnati,” said Caudill. “No one in Ohio knows the first thing about fitting a successful bracket.”

While the team at Southside Auto Repair always does a great job in a timely and reasonably priced manner, Caudill stated he was a little worried many of those with bracket problems weren’t aware of how much the fix would cost. We both witnessed one customer in the lobby with busted bracket in hand exclaim, “Well there’s $10 down the drain.”