Faith in NC restored…

Just when you think Chapel Hill has been destroyed by yuppies, you have to go to see Donnie Barnes about some Honda Tailights. D. Barnes' yard is down 15/501 off Lystra Rd. Just past Cole Park plaza. Off of Lystra Rd is also the Governers Country Club - an old-school-very-rich-white-southern type of place, but around the corner not 1/2 mile away is Sam Jones Rd on which the first building is Barnes Auto Repair, but that isn't our D. Barnes. So I asked the only person around who was a man, probably 50ish wearing a black cowboy hat who drove up in a 66 2 dr Chevy Impala (that was cherry I might add) where I could find D. Barnes. He kindly pointed me further down Sam Jones Road he said that it was "'bout a 1/2 mile look for the log cabin and a big rock - If you hit the pond or you've gone too far." Ok, turns out a LOT of Barnes live down that road, in fact, there is a Barnes road a little bit beyond the pond. Seems like every house is inhabited by one Barnes or another. So at said rock and cabin was a sign that read "Donnies ->" and further down a dirt road was Mr. D. Barnes and his junkyard. Unfortunately no Hondas that had the same taillights, but I had a good time spending a sweaty hour wandering around a junkyard with a bag of tools crawling through doghair infested wrecks, proping hatches up with the old carburettor that someone pulled off and decided they didn't need, pulling off taillights that don't fit what I need, and trying to pry open hatchbacks with no key. My monday lunch.