In my travels to find all of the world’s best things, ($1 Cumberland Farms Hot Dogs at 2 am, legendary, creepy townies at local VFW’s and more importantly a successful date on eHarmony) I have recently discovered that I cannot find a way to defeat a story-topper. Yes, a story-topper, we all know one, it is that friend that no matter what you say this person has either done it better or just makes your story look as insignificant as Ralph Nader on Election Day.

It occurred to me recently that I might have met the ultimate story-topper, someone who will top any anecdote no matter how frivolous the conversation.  I started to look into ways of defeating this menace to conversation, so I thought, “What the hell, YouTube will surely help.”  I was wrong.  The best I got was the Story-Topper-Ka-Bopper, and although the video is sadly funny, I knew it was useless.

So I turn to my readers, who will surely have experienced such a monster of a story-topper and will hopefully help me to once and for all overcome the story-topper.