Waist up

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Funny story I’ve been telling lately. Maybe exaggerating a bit.

I got up the other morning during a heat wave — 90 degrees, easy — took a shower, and headed upstairs to my home office.

There’s a window air conditioner, but I’ve never loved AC if I can avoid it. So, I put on a pair of shorts, sat down in front of the computer, and started writing.

I wrote the first draft of that day’s Understandably, plus a couple of articles for Inc.com (this one and this one, if you care). Then, my calendar alerted me to a 12 p.m. Zoom call.

So I called up the screen, and realized at the very last opportunity, milliseconds before the the room filled with colleagues, that pandemic or no pandemic, I should probably put on a shirt.

I laughed. And it brought to mind my two favorite innocuous statistics of the pandemic:

1. Only 10 percent of Americans actually get up in the morning, take a shower, and get dressed before starting the workday since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a study by NPD that was…