Cue me!

I just had an "I'm getting old moment."

Have you ever been cued up?

Everyone has a few stories they tell again and again. OK, I guess for the few people reading this that don't have any stories worth telling, my advice would be: get outside and do something, fer chrissake!

OK, back to my train of thought.

We all have stories that we tell over and over, to anyone who will listen. Maybe you were almost run over by a car, met a model in a train station, or almost had your head bashed in by a dude at a bar when you refused his offer to buy you a drink. Whatever the case, we all have interesting stories to tell, and tend to repeat the same stories (from my experience).

Now, everyone has a story or 2 that people can cue up with the right key words. Maybe it's talk about baseball that gets you going on a story of how you met Ichiro once. Or maybe when people mention the Matrix you relate (on cue), the story of Keanu Reeves hitting on you in a bar. You only intend to tell people the stories once, but you find yourself repeating them to the same people again and again if the timing is right, and if you've been properly cued (alcohol helps, too).

So I used to joke about being able to cue up a few people I knew. I knew their big time stories, and I knew (in a few cases) some key words that would get them going. But I thought I was immune to it; that I was more interesting than that (ie by having more than a few set stories to tell).

Nope.

A little bit ago I'm drinking with a friend, and the conversation goes to this and that, and then it hit me as I started into a long tirade. Wait, I thought, did I just get cued up? And I realized I had maybe told this same friend of mine the same story at least twice already.

Ah well. Drinking with a cool bud and exchanging the modern day equivalent of war stories is fun. It's just ever so mildly depressing when you realize you've just become the brunt of your own joke.