Why is Andy Rooney so grumpy and confused all the time? Well, in 1971, he went to bed and stumbled upon a wrinkle in the space-time continuum. Rooney then awoke in the deathscape of 2009, and helplessly roamed the barren streets of midtown Manhattan trying to make sense of it all. The poor guy has been through a lot, and we should go easy on him as he acclimates to our hellish reality.
None of that is true, of course, but if there wasn't 30 years of "60 Minutes" tape that proved otherwise, that would be the only logical explanation for his views on electronics.
Andy trots out eight -- yes, eight -- decrepit electric razors, and explains that he just doesn't have the heart to throw them out. No, you're not watching "Hoarders," but then again, you kind of are; it's clear that this is a man with a different set of values than modern society's. His black and white television is clearly not "too good for the dump," as he claims, but when he bought it, it was probably top of the line. So rather than throw it away, he throws it into his basement, with his other electronic relics of a time when he understood what the heck was going on.
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