Brace yourselves, it’s almost August
In less than 14 hours it will be August. Oh boy. I can’t speak for other agencies (or even other branches of my agency), but over the past four years, if something weird is going to happen at work, it’s gonna happen in August. Paperwork going missing, technical problems, a client breaking her arm, a client’s mother going missing in the US and being featured on America’s Most Wanted… some days we just look around the office and think “damn, we couldn’t make this shit up!”
This is our quiet season, as people are either away on vacation already or just mentally on vacation (come on, we all know those people who wander around all summer in a foggy daze, as they’re surfing in Bali in their mind instead of focusing on their grocery shopping). This lulls us agents into a happy sense of calm while simultaneously attracting all the strangeness to us like a dog whistle at the pound. I mean, would you think to ask a travel agent how to say tomato in Spanish? Really?
So we’ll see how this year plays out. I’ll keep you posted. I’m getting my crash helmet ready now!