Nostalgic Story Appreciator Gifts

"God I miss the good old days when you could huff and puff anywhere you damn well pleased."

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

"In high school, I was quite the star in metal shop."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

"String ... you mean it doesn't have a remote controller to operate it?"

'It's one of Larry King's earliest shows.'

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

Before the Internet

'I'm just not as ambidextrous as I used to be.'

'Take my tip,sonny and say it with jelly babies.'

'Bring out yer books!'

"In my life, I've had seven cars, six jobs, five houses, four bypass operations, and three wives!"

"Remember back in the day when I was a real heartbreaker?" "Riiight... now the only thing you break is wind."

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

"It seems like only yesterday that Dad told me I'll be an adult before I know it."

"More quarters! For God's sake, more quarters!!"

"When I was young my parents couldn't afford to give me too much, too soon."

"You never told me your dad was so delightfully old-fashioned."

"I can remember when having a '212' phone number still meant something in this world."

'It's worse than we thought: You've got termites.'

Fun (circa 1955)

'New Game'

The Paper Route

'Thirty years from now, this will seem terribly quaint and awash in charming period detail.'

Three kids in a trench coat, twenty years later.

"My inner child wants to have a playdate with your inner child."

Before pagers,mobile phones and the internet.

"I'm thinking of getting the old band back together."