“I retired in 2013 from Jim & Jim’s Body Shop. I just came on around here and started working. I’ve got daughters and they need things, you know? I detail, complete detail. I’m not trying to get rich. All I’m trying to do is stay alive. Anybody that drives up, I’m coming out and going to work. I’ve been doing it since I was 10. My dad didn’t like no dirty car. My oldest brother and me, that was our job on the weekend. We were doing that for chores, but the older I got and seen people with these car washes, I thought, ‘I can do this.’ I worked at the body shop for 35 years. When I retired, I called myself going to lay down for about a month or two, just rest or whatever. I ended up in hospital. That’s when my sickness came down. I think I only took vacation twice in that whole 35 years. When I laid in that bed walking back and forth to the kitchen with nothing to do, I ended up with Type 2 diabetes. The reason why I do what I do? If you’ve been working all your life and you sit down and don’t do nothing, your body starts relaxing, and that’s when your ailments start coming. I do this to stay alive.” – Tony Frizzle of Rosedale

Tony Frizzle continues to detail cars even though he retired nearly a decade ago. (Tamika Moore / People of Alabama)

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