Yeah, I’m sure it was real to them. It just sounded so relatively mundane.
This puts me contrary to a lot of people online who make it their responsibility to point out “And everyone clapped” or “This totally happened”. I actually like reading entertaining stories, whether real or not.
Rereading the purpose of this community, I’m reminded that this is for real-life encounters. So this story fits perfectly here. I was just amused by how real it actually sounded, because most scary stories online are so carefully crafted and curated.