2009 Me: And by 1995, the last Chess King had closed it’s doors for good.
1979 Me: And you thought that was a bad thing?
2009 Me: Well, it was a store that was around back in 1979. It was once of those places we would have to walk by on the way out of the mall.
1979 Me: I didn’t shop there. Please, please don’t tell me that I shopped there in the future
2009 Me: No, we never did. Well, we walked in, and we walked right back out without buying anything.
1979 Me: Thank you. Or thank me, or us.
2009 Me: But we did go through a phase in the early ‘80s where we wore skinny ties….