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Crikey what an unusual story! With no twists in the tale or deviation at all. Why do you think they all tell it as first person?
Ah of course leg pulling would make sense
It's the Chinese expat version of drop bears, then?
Did you ever challenge them on it? Point out that you'd heard an identical story from multiple other people? If so, how did they react?
Oh that's interesting. I never would have presented the question as challenging their memory because it never even occurred to me that they may genuinely believe what they were saying. Is it your experience that they do actually sell to believe that story happened directly to themselves?
Oh yeah, I know that memory is incredibly fallible. It just didn't occur to me that it would be what's going on here.