Yahoo! Answers. You can search "Embarrassing moments" or something and click someone's question and you can read the stories people put. They are actually really good and funny stories.
yours
To remeber things that happened, to tell stories, or to tell the future people what it was like.
you can read some on twistmagazine
To scare people.
they tell stories about the war and how it happened and they praised god its over
The Algonquins told stories about their people and some stories have morals behind it
for fun!
scary
You make it general and foreshadowing what is to come. Think of it as a preview for a movie; sum it up and leave some mystery. This isn't just true for embarrassing moment stories, but for all stories.
The Afro-Asian culture has many stories, but all of them are varied and tell varying stories of these people.
to tell stories