Story ideas
Your firsts:
- Your first kiss
- Getting your driver’s license
- Buying your first house.
- A near-death experience.
- Breaking your virginity. (We know that these stories can be told tastefully.)
- Your first pet.
- The time you bought your first new car.
- First job
- Your very first actual memory
Family stories:
- Getting married or attending a really fun/wild wedding.
- Death in the family. There’s no reason why all stories have to be happy. There’s also no reason why all funerals have to be sad.
- Your favorite relative.
- Your least favorite relative.
- Birthday party - for kids of all ages!
- Anniversary
Concerts, shows, movies and music:
- Your favorite concert.
- Your favorite record.
- Hospital stories. The emergency room. The ICU. The incident leading up to hospitalization.
- Waiting room stories (speaking of hospitals).
Times you can’t help but smile about:
- Most embarrassing moment.
- That time you accidentally snorted milk.
- That time you laughed so hard milk came out of your nose.
The last time you…
- went on vacation
- went to a favorite restaurant
- went to the movies
When you met your…
- Best friend(s)
- Soulmate
- Arch-nemesis
Odds and ends:
- A fist-fight
- Meeting a Celebrity
- his/her movie/book/artwork/etc. you liked and remember
- Meeting your doppelganger
- Your pet dying
- A story describing a scar from your childhood
- Tattoo story
- A baby being born (yourself or a family member)
Shared Experiences:
- 9-11
- 1989 San Francisco Earthquake
- Tiananmen Square
- Kennedy Assassination
- Challenger Explosion
- Oklahoma City bombings
- Y2K (If anything happened)
- 2004 Tsunami
- Hurricane Katrina
- Nixon Resignation
- Iran hostages released
