I have a bad habit with underexaggeration. What this means is, I exaggerate things. But not enough to make people realize I’m exaggerating.
For example.
Let’s say I was really hungry one night and I ate five pieces of pie (it doesn’t matter what kind of pie, but let’s say it was key lime pie because I like key lime pie a lot, and it adds plausability to the whole thing). The next day, I might decide to tell a story about the happening as I am often wont to do. My story about this would be along these lines:
"Dude, so, last night, I was, like, really really hungry or whatever. Like, super hungry, so I was like, ‘I wonder if we have any pie?’ and we all didn’t have any, so I was all, ‘fuckit, I’m gonna go buy some pie’ and I went and bought some key lime pie."
"Right, as you are often wont to do."
"Right! So, I got the pie, and I was really hungry, really hungry. I was so hungry I ate like seven pieces!"
"Wow, you ate seven pieces of pie?"
"Yeah, well, no, I ate five really."
"Why’d you say seven?"
"I was exaggerating."
"By saying seven instead of five?"
"Well…"
"By the way, is that the whole story?"
"Yeah, I wa-"
"That’s an awful story."
"Well, bu-"
"No. That’s an awful story."
"…"
"I’m gonna go… stop calling me over for shit like that."
So maybe underexaggeration is not the chief problem. Hmm.
I’ve made a real breakthrough here. Maybe it’s my stories to begin with; they need to be thought through more. It’s like sometimes I just start telling someone something just because it occurs to me and not taking the time to really think through the essence of the story or whether it’s worth telling and I’ll just go on and on and on until, well, until I don’t even know when to stop, and I just have to decide to just throw out a period and just end it.
Well. Either way. After I take care of that other crap, underexaggeration is still a problem.