Storytellin'

Are you building common ground through story telling OR are you just telling stories?

"Telling stories" - the nicer way to call someone a lie because you do not have the political/human capital or social privilege to call them a liar. (I.e. Grandma you told a story when you said you took your medicine, I see the unopened pill bottle by your bed.)

I'll connect this at some point but I didn't want to lose the question.