excellent!
Great, 70 vendors who all want their pound of flesh from inspectors.
It really is perspective.
In the 55+ years that I worked for myself, it was never “slow” or “down”. There was ALWAYS something to do.
Agree Larry. In the 40 years+ I’ve been in my self owned businesses, I too have found something to do when one particular business was slow. 
There is always horses, hookers & weed, amirite? 
Let me rephrase:
In the 55+ years that I worked for myself, it was never “slow” or “down”. There was ALWAYS something to do WITH MONEY TO BE MADE.
Vendors are as important as educators IMHO. Imagine an industry with no infrared cameras, no drones, not sewer scopes, no laboratories, no marketing firms, no insurance, no report-writing software. What would we be? A bunch of dudes with lined paper and pens.
The early 90’s…
Capitalist system works. Every vendor out there is working to make their stuff better and better and invent new stuff for our industry. Come check out the latest at www.nachi.org/convention