Dont get mad, get creative.
-Ive rebuilt engines sitting on the tailgate of my truck
-I dropped in my turbo engine on the sidewalk, broke it in driving it to work and school, and have had 2 years of thorough enjoyment out of it with no compression loss whatsoever.
-Ive changed my oil in the SFSU student parking lot, filter too.
-I regularily fix cars that wont start for some reason or another right where they break down. Worst case scenario is replacing alternator in a 240sx on the side of the freeway in a slight drizzle, for shizzle. Ive done crazier and more labor intense work on the street, but laying under a car while people are doing freeway speed is just plain scary.
-I did the 4x4 brake conversion in a Kragen parking lot on Geary Blvd and walked my two piston calipers downstairs back in for cores
Its from doing stuff like this where I learned to know that I can do whatever I want as long as I believe in myself and love myself for who I am, a resourceful pain in the ass who refuses to believe the sky is the limit, and looks forward to the day WHEN I look down upon it-while never forgetting those nights drenched in rain and grease and oil with my eyes on the prize.
I have now had a garage for two years, and I go absolutely apes#1t working in it as much as possible. I am not scared to work on the street, but I am happy that I can have shop time to do my stuff, and lucky enough to have friends that share my mentality (The NISMOBB) and will help me either work on my car in the street or in their driveways.
Ive had people ask me what I was doing and I once lived in an apartment where the landlord didnt like it.
I got lucky when I told him, " I have to work on my car here so I can get to work on time and pay the rent on time, like I always do because I work on my car to go to work on time and pay rent on time, (say that six times to any response he or she has to you saying it the first time)" They probably wont like it and your lease may not be renewed, but the landlord that once got mad at me doing brakes just looked away when the cherry picker came through the next time. Im not saying do what I do, but theres more than one way to skin a cat.