re: If someone is telling you a story they have already told you, do you tell them?

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sometimes the telling of the story is the beauty of it. If a story is well told, you won’t mind rehearing it.

All depends on the situation

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This is how I feel

I have a buddy that tells me drunk stories and tells them again sober the next day. We have been friends a long time and I usually stop him right away and we both laugh.

Depends on who it is. If it's an older person, I generally let it slide. If it's someone my age, they get like 3 retellings and then I start saying something to the affect of "Oh I remember this story, didn't you xxxxxx".

I let them go the first time they tell me to see if they changed it up and if a major detail is different I will say "the last time you told me story you said ____________".. If its an older person I let it go, but if not.. I let the 2nd time pass, but after that I will hit them with a "damn son.. how many times you are going to tell that story?"..

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I let them go the first time they tell me to see if they changed it up and if a major detail is different I will say "the last time you told me story you said ____________".. If its an older person I let it go, but if not.. I let the 2nd time pass, but after that I will hit them with a "damn son.. how many times you are going to tell that story?"..



By OweO

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My wife literally tells me everything twice.

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After hearing her the first time from then on I tell her to give me the Reader's Digest version.

I love it when people tell me a story that I told them.

It’s kind of like “the aristocrats.” Joke.

A hundred different people can tell the same story a hundred different ways a hundred different times.
A good storyteller will make you not care that you’ve heard it over and over, and a bad storyteller will make you wish you’d never heard it at all.