I put my thinking bucket on the other day, and I got to thinking about Andy's lost years. Andy and Barney speak quite frequently about their school years that ended in 1946, naming teachers and classmates and even naming the years they met and the clubs they belonged to. And of course in 1960 we met Andy and knew all about him after that. But the years from 1946 until 1960 are quite a mystery. Andy mentioned once that he served in the military, so that would account for a couple of years. And we know that sometime before 1953 he married, because in about 1954 he had a son. But Andy has never spoken of having any other job (except the military) before he was elected sheriff. We can be almost sure that he did not come straight back from the military and win election as sheriff, because as with any election it takes a few years of politicking and back slapping to line up your votes. My thoughts on this subject was that when he came back from the military, he was hired as a deputy (like Barney), since that was a hired job and not an election. But the trouble with that is in one episode (I think it is The Punch in The Nose), Andy names all of the previous sheriffs for Barney. When he does this he does not say something like "And I was his deputy", which would only be a natural thing to say. All we know for sure is Andy held down some sort of job between 1948 and 1954, but it is never mentioned. We can be pretty sure he was not a mechanic, he never worked on the squad car. Doesn't seem to be a carpenter either. Does anyone have a guess what he might have been?
Orville Hendricks - Spent my whole life selling butter and eggs. Not much of a retirement plan in that though. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ SkyDrive™: Get 25 GB of free online storage. http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_SD_25GB_062009 _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
