My friend, the bad storyteller.
April 28, 2009 § 16 Comments
I have a friend, let’s call him friend A. Yes, I know that comes to you as a surprise but I do have a friend. The fact that I have to pay him a fee to rent his friendship is besides the point, the point is I am like you. I have someone I call buddy.
Unfortunately there is one thing that troubles me about him. He is a horribly atrocious storyteller. I thought I was bad, but man, A sucks! If there were an Olympics for worst storyteller in the world he would win gold. No contest. Allow me to tell you one of his stories – word for word.
Once upon a time, my good friend A and another friend (who shall remain friend B for the purposes of this story) were chatting about random stuff. Anyway, to cut a long narrative short, A interrupts us and says, “Guys, did you watch the news last night?”
“No,” we say.
“Well, there is this rich guy in France.” Pause. “He’s in trouble.”
Silence.
More silence.
Even more silence.
I suddenly come to the realisation that that’s all there is to the story. “There is this rich guy in France. He is in trouble.” That’s it. No more.
“Is that it?!” I ask with incredulous irritations. He nods.
One thing I gotta give him though is that he sure tells a memorable pointless story. After all these years, six years to be precise, I still remember it. “There is this rich guy in France.” Pause. “He is in trouble.”
I actually had to laugh out loud when I read that.
Then he is not so bad after all if you still remember it!
But what about some one who tells your stories back to you, and embellishes them! What do you do if he does that in public?
Ha ha!
He’s better than okes who say, “Remember that one time when we did that thing?”
HAHAHAHA! đŸ™‚
the guy is just like me
yeah, that guy is like me too.
Often when I tell stories, at the end my friends are asking me “and…??”
But I thought my story was totally compelling! *goes to google “rich guy in france.”*
Khaya,
This is still one of your classics. Hillarious.
Hahaha
tltltl, ja nhe,
Haven’t laughed this hard in a while
I guese am gonna require more of his stories tho
hahaha..Dont know if i should crack or crack…hai suka
you just made me laugh…
I guess your friend is as bad as you are because in this article you are telling us about how bad A tells his stories but you also told this one horribly bad. Coz it just ends in the middle of nowhere..
And that friend is………..Khaya Dlanga!!!!!!
Hahahaha Khaya, it sounds like you have an incredible friend with indellible stories. For us who love stories, we are left pondering at nothing but I could not stop giggling at nothing really