As I am now within two days of getting into cinemas and theatres at concession prices, I want to make a plea for old men like me who perhaps have a slight tendancy to repeat themselves.
I will confess now that , especially in my cups , I do have a desire to tell anecdotes. My wife is convinced that each time I do I am telling the same story to the same people-again.
She is not, I am certain, always right.
But even if she were, given that it is a good story, what harm?

I have just recieved some support from that 20th century English wit and writer A. P. Herbert*;

There is no reason why a good story should not be appreciated more than once.
Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to playBeethoven’s Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.

*Found in the Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations