"When I was on..." story twice or thrice
How true.
I've been having a convivial pint or two with an old work colleague, who is ex-navy, for over 20yrs or more. We're often asked what we find to talk about after so many years. ''The same things we talked about last week...and the week before'' is our reply. We came to a gentleman's agreement some years ago that we would not say 'You've already told me that story many times''.