A long long time ago, when I was yet again boring my friend Travis with another dull tale, we chanced upon the quick fix that will make ANY story interesting. If you feel your audience is fading away, you can draw them back instantly by jumping in with:
"... and then I found $20!"
We decided that noone could fail to be impressed by this. $5 or $10 just aren't enough money to do anything of substance with. Finding $50 is the stuff of fantasy. Finding $20 is just the right amount of good luck, without inducing extreme envy from the other party, to capture their attention. If you live in a country whose currency does not happen to be dollars, even better! Your story is now exotic.
Try it, it really does work! And I should know, because I tell an awful lot of boring stories :-)
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