ALLERGIES & ANDY ROONEY

Allergies plague us. Doctors, pharmacists as well as friends
recommend all sorts of remedies.  If the allergy is too bad sometimes
a prescription is written.   Most times it's catch as catch can over the
counter products are purchased and some work.  Sneezing and runny
noses are quieted until they come back again and again.

Packaging for pills, large and small all shout I AM  THE CURE.
Specific instructions for use are carried on most products. They tell us
how to unwrap and use pills.  That's when I miss the late Andy Rooney.

Rooney was television's sweet curmudgeon. He closed "CBS
60 Minutes" with the most irreverent remarks about ordinary
 things that don't work well. He had a whinny gravely kind of voice
 and always told manufacturers why their products don't work.

I thought of Rooney when  I made my umpteenth purchase of allergy
pills.  The package had arrows for easy opening. I pushed the arrows.
The pills did not come out. I tried a scissors and then a knife and
finally the pills came out.  They were crushed.

I wish Andy Rooney was around to tell
pharmaceutical companies they ought to do something
about all those cute arrows that don't work.