The Same Story

It would be nice if Kadizzle was not as guilty as everyone else, but the same stories get told over and over. As we get older the nice thing is we all lose our memories. So if we are lucky we forgot the last time Willy told us about the time he caught a fish that had swallowed a cigarette lighter and when he cut it open the lighter was still burning. Usually the lapse between when you tell the same person the same story is a couple of months or a year, but when you reach a certain age you may only be able to go an hour or two. Wives are the ones who really suffer in this story game. The poor commander has heard Kadizzles stories so many times she often puts a halt to them right out of the gate. This saves someone the tragedy of hearing the whole mess over. People tell stories because our society does not like issues of substance to be debated in public. If you take religion and politics off the table there is not much left but to tell the same stories over and over. People can talk about books, movies, or sports, but this can be hard on the illiterate like Kadizzle. One technique Kadizzle has adopted as a listener to a repeat tale is to see how well the current version matches last years. If you listen closely the location often changes and so do many of the key details. So you are not always listening to the same story, but often a new and improved version. The most fun is to listen to a story when you were one of the characters. Since you were there you have your own version of what happened. The fun part is comparing your reality with the story tellers reality. So if you are bored hearing the same story over test your memory while you listen to how Uncle Willy had an old dog that could sing.