Habits don’t simply vanish, especially those that predate the internet, Waterside and the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel. So it was Oct. 17, when at 4:30 p.m., the University of Virginia announced Tony Bennett’s retirement.
A revered, national-championship basketball coach exiting less than a month before the season? At age 55?
My first instinct was to write. One problem. For the first time in 40-plus years, I didn’t have a platform.
FOMO reared its ugly head — until a text at 4:59 p.m.