All these choices are phases of what I was, where I was on this, and where I'd like to be. I have a tough time sitting and lovingly listen to a great story get fudging mangled...oops, see? but I would love to be able to sit and listen knowing the friend was having a good time telling it the way the wanted to.

I would probably interrupt and supply details.

But then, that would be expected of me by my friends.... It would be more like we are telling our story together, instead of them telling it alone.

This happens all the time with a friend of mine whenever we tell the story about our first acid trip together. It was a pretty crazy story.

yeah, this sort of thing is certainly frustrating and hard to deal with... I picked almost every answer... probably the best thing I can do is interject a little with non-conflicting details that add to the humor of the story. Or, maybe since they are getting it wrong, make stuff up that's even more absurd to mock them.

I try to spice it up.

I would probably interrupt here and there and say "Don't forget to mention..." or something to encourage them to include interesting or funny parts. I wouldn't intend to take over telling the whole story, although if that ended up happening, I would be glad that I got to tell it better!

I've done all of the top 4 options. I guess it depends on my mood, who the friend is, exactly how they're butchering the story, etc.

However, if the story is prefaced by a statement like "If I remember it right..." or "I'm paraphrasing here," or some some other qualifier, I generlaly leave it alone.

I want to rip their throat out.

I have to have details!!!

Never happened to me.

I can't check anything off because I do not know anyone who does this.

It can pain me greatly and the situation dictates the varied responses

Kill them. I love stories and I hate when they're fudgeed up by someone who can't tell them.

I want to interrupt and correct all the details as the story is being told.

I allow NO ONE to fudge up a perfectly all right story!!

I no longer feel like I am the bad guy when a great story is marred by incoherent rambling.

I wait for the friend to finish and then add something like, "But the funny thing was..." or "What she forgot to mention was..." OR I interrupt by saying, "Don't forget to tell them about..." and then let the person add it to the story.

This sort of thing has happened to me many times. Actually, I have this tendency to doubt my own memory of the events if someone else tells it differently.