I've had the CEO of a municipal water company at my house looking at what his contractors did to my property frontage and potentially my well. Also, my other story in this thread is documented in posterity on a forum, you can see i didn't embellish any of it, and that involved a manager or supervisor having to drive quite a long time to my house at 10 PM with a technician to source a problem i had had for weeks or months.
So, in essence, "it depends". Good stories, in the memetic sense, will have hooks to ensure that the moral or point of the story is remembered; in a great story, the memetic hooks are so great that you can repeat the story nearly verbatim to other people, after hearing it yourself.
So, in essence, "it depends". Good stories, in the memetic sense, will have hooks to ensure that the moral or point of the story is remembered; in a great story, the memetic hooks are so great that you can repeat the story nearly verbatim to other people, after hearing it yourself.