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Jan - Feb 2021
The View From My Office
With Kat Monteiro Hello my faithful readers.
I wasn’t so sure I would be wri ng anything for this issue of the Mopar Masters Guild Magazine. I didn’t feel like I had anything to write about. I had told our publisher Don Cushing that I was in a rut and just not feeling inspired. I didn’t want to sound like a broken record, wri ng about the same things. And what are those things? COVID-19 and s ll being at home and not out in the field visi ng our customers. But, Don just wrote me back and said, “I’ll take whatever you got”. A subtle way of encouragement that got me to start pu ng something down. There isn’t a conversa on out there it seems that does not include talking about COVID. It doesn’t start out that way but it always seems to end up that way. So, yes, I’m in a rut. I miss being out on the road, I miss visi ng with people in the aisles of the grocery store, I miss gathering with family, and I hate the worry of when we are around any family that someone doesn’t get sick. Then I started thinking about it and reminded myself that I am not the only one. Every one of us are dealing with these same feelings and worries. And for some it goes a lot deeper than just the feeling of being in a rut. So, I decided to pick myself up and write. Wri ng is a good therapy for me. And I did not want to disappoint my faithful readers! It’s in mes like these that we need to sit back and find what we are thankful for. Even though it has been hard, and stressful for the past year, we are thankful to s ll be working and that the parts department has been crazy busy! We are experiencing the same set backs everyone else is at our dealership. Being shorthanded; people out due to Covid. Thankfully, our customers seem to be understanding for the most part. Not having a full crew is hard on everyone, but we all keep plugging along and ge ng her done. Then there is being thankful for living where we do in California. Just the other night Rick and I were si ng on the couch watching the news and our local weather girl was on with the predic ons for this coming Monday and it was going to be 80 degrees. I groaned and complained about it and Rick asked me, “what’s wrong with 80?” I replied that it is winter and the weather should be chilly. I mean, I s ll want our beau ful, cloudless, blue sky but with a chill in the air. (I know, spoiled!) Then they started covering the weather in our eastern states. All snow, and frozen, and deadly. Then there is Texas! With all that snow they are not used to ge ng and freezing weather. Then to top it off they have all the power outages, and massive car accidents out on the frozen highway. My heart felt so heavy thinking of the friends we have there and what they must be going through. Rick said out loud “I’ll take 80” and I responded, “me too”. I really felt humbled. Continued on Page 13
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