Can you remember things that happen so you can accurately tell people about it?

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I have a fairly good memory with some things, and I realized a long time ago that my husband does not. Usually when I tell a story that happened to me, I probably get pretty close to the truth, and I tend to tell the same story. Well, my husband NEVER tells the story the same way and sometimes it's SO wrong that I think he must be talking about a different thing. Yesterday was another prime example. This is what I remember of what happened. My husband was checking out his sister's Facebook and saw a picture of her best friend from High School. We've been trying to get in touch with this girl for a suprise for his sister, but he's lost her information. So he says something about her and for the first time he says her last name. Well, he's only ever referred to her by her first name, so I've never paid attention. She was supposed to come to our wedding but couldn't make it for some reason, so I've never met her. Well, he shows me this picture of her yesterday after I say I think I know her, but she didn't look anything like this girl I used to work with so I told him she wasn't who I thought she was and I didn't know her. He then tells me she used to work for some home builder and I had to take another look because it HAD to be her. When I looked closer, sure enough, that was a younger, chunkier version, but it was her! I was shocked that I knew his sister's best friend, and that I most likely used to hang out with his sister. Now, this was about 12-15 years ago so I really don't remember everyone we hung out with all the time. But, this was really cool because now we have a great way to get her contact information from his sister without her being suspicious of our suprise! I have seen this girl in the last 5 years or so, but I've lost her phone number and all. Well, last night my husband is talking to his sister and the story he's telling her of what happened is not all that close to what happened. He tells her that I recognized her right away and told me her last name afterwards. And that I hadn't seen her in about 15 years. I had to take the phone away from him and tell her what really happened. Then this morning, he's telling his son what happened and it's even ANOTHER version of it. He's saying that I looked at the picture, knew right away who she was, and told him that we played ball together. Well, we did play ball together, but I didn't tell him that until AFTER he talked to his sister last night. I knew I had some pictures from that time and wanted to see if there were any with the three of us in them. I didn't find any, but my sister might have them. So now he's got me looking for the pictures before he talked to his sister, and that didn't happen until afterwards! I'm sure by tomorrow it'll be that I knew them both and introduced them... I know there's 2 sides to every story because we all perceive things differently, but he has no clue what even happened! My closest friend knows now that when he's telling a story, I'll tell her what REALLY happened later.