Retelling events - good or bad?

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Are you good or bad at retelling events in person?

When I retell an event to someone who didn't witness it, what I say makes perfect sense to me. But the other manages to not understand me right... or I somehow tell it wrong. Anyway, I love retelling events, but other people don't love me doing it much and they'll not really understand what the event was about.

Yeah I sorta have the same problem, I know what I want to say and try and say it but it usually makes no sense to the person


(also nice avatar)

I mostly find with retelling events (and trying to give other people directions for that matter) it can be a bit hard to translate the full-colour, in-my-head version into words that suitably describe to the other person what I'm seeing in my mind...sometimes it can be very hard to condense what you see into a couple of sentences.

Not good. I always leave important details out.

Sometimes my mind goes blank in the middle of telling a story or I stutter and can't get some words out of me.

I tend to add more details than my interlocutor cares to hear.

I am horrible at retelling events because I tend to convey conclusory information without much embellishment. I especially do not like it when someone puts me on the spot and asks me to tell other people about something I did. The conversation usually goes something like this:

Person: Hey GuyTypingOnComputer, tell everyone about the time you went scuba diving.
GuyTypingOnComputer: You just told them I went scuba diving. What else do you want to know?

Depends on the situation...but writing things out is far easier for me than trying to tell someone stuff off the top of my head!

I tend to take about an hour to tell someone what happened in a half-hour tv programme.

Okay, that's a slight exaggeration, but you get my drift.

I am terrible at retelling events. It's never been something that's come easily to me.

Offtopic, HARUHI SUZUMIYA!! ! Love the avatar

I retell the events good enough until I say, "Oh Gods, there was one more thing that had happened before it all!"

I find it hard to recall events in front of other people as I fall into an amnesic state when I have to. However if the person helps me recall by asking me questions about it, I suddenly start remembering and organising my thoughts properly.
Although I am very good at retelling events by typing it up on a computer so e-mail usually works well for me.

somedays I wish I could do a mind meld thing, so they could just see it in my brain