Repertoire Magazine – June 2021
What You Did Last Summer
Do you remember what it was like last year heading into summer?
- Everyone was stuck at home trying to survive homeschooling their kids while staying on top of work, but not looking forward to figuring how to keep children occupied without school.
- Endless Zoom sales calls, Zoom family calls and Zoom happy hours.
- We wiped everything down at the grocery store only to have the checkout person touch it all.
- Little to no traveling.
- Shaggy hairdos because we couldn’t get haircuts.
- Getting used to wearing masks in public places.
- Breaking out family recipes and cooking more at home. Probably drinking more too.
- Watching the news more than we care to admit.
Here we are 15 months after the initial 14-day “Flatten the Curve” (yeah right) lockdowns and I’m happy to say things seem to be headed back to a relative state of normalcy. Restaurants are 100% to capacity here in Georgia as well as at the Braves stadium. I’ve flown close to a dozen times this year. I went into Home Depot yesterday without a mask, joined by 10-15 others not wearing a mask. I no longer have to wear a mask while getting my haircut. (It’s still gray by the way). The first live distribution meeting was held, and it was amazing to see so many faces I’ve missed. And finally, our business, thanks to all of you, is back and thriving.
I guess the long and short of it is, when all this craziness started, no one knew where it would end up or how to deal with it, and no one ever thought 14 days would turn into almost a year. For me personally so much was learned. One lesson which may be the most important is we all need each other, and I’m thankful for every one of you reading this magazine. Regardless of our differences or our similarities, we all need one another!
Here’s to the “NEW NORMAL” just being normal!
Dedicated to the industry,
R. Scott Adams