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		sophacles on April 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your s... These sorts of things make for good war stories. I find a trick to improve my attitude while dealing with them is to remind myself "this will be a good story at least, and I'll be glad it happened once I'm regaling others with it".

dddrh on April 29, 2023 | [–]

I call this “Type 2 Fun”. As in it’s more fun to tell the story than be experiencing it.

As an example: many backpacking trip stories are type 2 fun.

kstrauser on April 28, 2023 | [–]

Oh, you know it! That's going to be a great tale to bust out for years to come.

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