Andy Rooney signed off as a regular commentator on “60 Minutes” tonight and we will miss him.
He was a writer. Those of us who try to do that appreciate the effort it takes to put one word after another and have them make sense. It's harder still to write words to be spoken, by you or someone else. (I did that for many years in both radio and TV news.)
Andy could be read, as in his newspaper columns, or heard on TV. You may not have agreed with him but he always touched a chord somewhere. I usually agreed with him. Particularly when he picked an everyday item and told you how silly it was.
Take phone books. In the old days we used to get two phone books for every phone in the house. One white pages for residential numbers, one yellow pages for businesses. A bit of overkill, that, but the phone company meant well.
Now, we receive one phone book for the household and it's all yellow pages. No residential numbers at all. There was a notice in small print at the bottom that said if you wanted a white pages you could call a toll-free number and order it. We did.
Delivery in six to eight weeks. Do they have to print one just for us?
I wonder what Andy would have made of that.
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