Why family needs to be taken in small doses:

I haven't posted in a few weeks and wanted to commit something to print. The following is a true story about a recent family event which may help to explain my occasional insanity:

My brother-in-law, Dan is from the Murray, Ky. area. When my sister Jo and Dan lived in Hazel, near Murray, Jo owned a retail store named "Miss Bradies." Dan was an auctioneer.
A man from Murray lives at my sister, Sue's and Mom's assisted living place, and they talked.
Turns out, the guy had a grandfather who's estate was auctioned off years ago, and he thought Dan auctioned the stuff and he wanted g-dad's law books and thought Dan had bought them. and he'd like to see/meet Dan.
Dan, when told the story, said he knew the guy's family, but wasn't the auctioneer. Doesn't have the books.
OK? goofy, homey story totally debunked, right?
Wrong. Not so fast, at least not in my family. The story sprouted huge legs, took off and has resisted every attempt to discredit it. In my family, it'll be a legend in about 6 more months. It drives me crazy, and at a dinner last week, it had a new wrinkle:
Everyone was late and mom had already gone back into this small dining room at the end of a hall. I seated mom and asked Sue to stay with her and I'd wait at the front door and show the guests where to go.
after a minute Sue comes up behind me.
she left mom because she wanted Dan, who was late already, to meet that guy who was then in the adjacent big dining room.
And she explained to me that Dan had bought some of his granddad's books AND JO HAD SOLD SOME OF THE AUCTION STUFF AT HER STORE!!!!!!!
a brand new twist to a family folklore story!!
She got mad at me when I reminded her that the underlying story, that Dan was the auctioneer, was false, and that the new variation had to also be false. But sister Sue would have none of this blasphemy, she has her story. To give a new reason for introducing them she says, "Well, they're both from western Kentucky!" I told her yes, but so are 100,000 other people.
Dan came in, she led him over to the guy and Dan was captured for about 15 additional minutes while 7 people waited to order dinner.
And worst of all, I'm the only person that thought the entire exercise was crazy.