Angela Scalla-Johnson remembers well the day she realized she wasn’t her father’s favorite.
It was Sept. 1, 2009, and she and her dad, Henry, were at a Chattanooga bank to close her purchase of his Midas auto-repair shop on Market Street.
“We’re signing the paperwork,” Scalla-Johnson says. “The bank manager looks at my dad and says, ‘Henry, you look upset.’ My dad says, ‘Well, I’m losing my baby.’
“The manager says, ‘Henry, [Angela’s] still your daughter.’ My dad says, ‘No, I mean the store,'” she says.
Scalla-Johnson had worked for her dad for the previous five years but, just like that, she became the boss.