Saturday night I was out with some friends and during the course of conversation with this girl in our group, we somehow started talking about hiking. She proceeded to tell me this crazy story about when her mom and sister got lost in the woods for over five hours once during a hiking trip. It somehow involved her dad being overly competitive and her mom ripping her pants sliding down a mountain. Then at the end of the story she said, “… And then I found five dollars!”
At first I was completely lost by this statement. In my mind I was trying to compute her finding $5 on a hiking trail somewhere in the mountains, but I just couldn’t do it. I think I may have even made a face that indicated what she had just said made my brain hurt.
It was then she explained the concept of saying, “… And then I found five dollars!” after you finish a boring and/or meaningless story that doesn’t really go anywhere. It just makes the story more exciting and adds a point to pointless stories.
Since I’m a bit of a storyteller, I absolutely loved learning of this.
And then I found five dollars!
