I misremember too!

Certain newscasters know that to be trusted, one must always tell the truth.  I will not use this space to ridicule, mock, insult, embarrass, or name-call anyone...except me.

We have all had that moment where we desire to bend the truth a wee little bitty bit to make ourselves sound not as idiotic as we think we are.  Really its only for our own egos that we do it.  For example:

"Yeah Big Mon said to me he says: 'Son, you might be the finest picker in bluegrass!' He said that right to me!"

While immediately people will be impressed because it is known far and wide that "Big Mon" was Bill Monroe's nick name, YOU know that you were only talking about your co-worker's janitor who went by Montana Joe and knew nothing about bluegrass nor have the prefix "Big" in front of his nick name.  They can't blame you.  You "misremembered" that the Father of Bluegrass also went by that name.  Lucky coincidence.
Or how about this one:

"I must've been on that swamp for three hours before I finally got a bite.  You talk about a fight, son!  I said to Bubba 'I done landed me a gator!' and Bubba said 'That ain't no gator that's a shark!' I commenced to reeling in the most gigantic silver carp you ever saw!  We must've eaten off of it for ten years!"

This is one commonly told both by you and Bubba because both of you "misremembered" which one of you reeled in that 3-pound-catfish that Bubba said was a carp.  You also only ate off of it for 2 days (Eat it the first day, throw the scraps out for the raccoons the next day).

It's so easy to do.  We all tend to do it the slightest.  However, it is still considered lying. Lying is lying.  I never have approved of lying and I certainly would call someone out if they are lying.  I would tell them to knock it off and don't let it happen again! In fact, that's what was telling my old pal Barack when I was visiting him and Joe last week if I misremember correctly...