"Some of the staff said we shouldn't encourage people to reminisce, it made them depressed," Professor Dobrof said.
A co-worker of hers at Metropolitan Lumber, Milton Molina, leaned far back in his chair and reminisced: "It was the last place to have banana cream pie.
One of those negotiating on the NHS's part reminisced: "It was going OK, but it was a bit like going on a first date, thinking, 'we've certainly got a lot in common', and then adult social care ending the evening with, 'right, now we have to get married, because I haven't got any money'".
"We used to have pot-luck dinners at my house and I'd fix 'em chalupas and we'd get some beer," she reminisced, "it would be a good chance to get acquainted and make friends.
Examples are: "When I reminisce, it is... to pass the time during idle or restless hours" (boredom reduction), "to see how my past fits in with my journey through life" (identity), "to help me plan for the future" (problem solving), or "to keep painful memories alive" (bitterness revival).
As neighbors recalled, it was always an adventure of getting away, as much about visiting, laughing and reminiscing as it was about hitting a jackpot.
And I said, 'Aw shucks, this is gonna be good!' Ah girl, I was reminiscing - it was like I was seeing a movie in my head".
Immediately we bore everyone in the room by reminiscing about it".
Mr. Carter is reminiscing about it when Mr. Kirtzman, looking up from his salad, exclaims that he just had a flashback and remembered being on the show himself.
Reminiscing about it last week, at his house in the Village, the artist, who retains his grunge look at the age of seventy-two, said that he did not go to Le Mans that year but wishes that he had.
