Reenactment: Your guru in action.

Whenever someone relates to me a harrowing experience, I strive to look interested and engage them in conversation. To feign interest I’ll often ask thought-provoking questions like, “Did you live?”

It can be a lively conversation booster.

Spoiler alert: In the story I’m about to share, I lived. Or, as Nethack might put it, “You survived that attempt on your life.”

But perhaps I’m relating things out of turn. It all started when I met my wife for lunch…
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