What was the story you heard? What makes it a story?

I stayed on campus during the break instead of traveling home for the holiday. On Thanksgiving, I FaceTimed my sister and my grandma while they waited for dinner to be ready. While talking to my grandma, my aunt was brought up. The story that my grandma decided to tell me about my aunt was brought up naturally. My aunt is notorious for her cooking skills. We love her, but she has been banned from making the Thanksgiving mac and cheese. I’m old enough to remember the time when she still brought side dishes to Thanksgiving, but my grandma told me a story from when my aunt first started dating my uncle in the early 2000s. My aunt is related to me through marriage, and she wanted to impress her future husband’s family. On her first Thanksgiving with my family, she didn’t want to come empty-handed so she decided to make a pie. All she planned to do was buy a premade pie crust and a canned filling. There is absolutely nothing wrong with not making a pie from scratch; it’s hard to mess up. On the morning of Thanksgiving, she was in a rush to get ready and was running late. Her hair was in rollers, she was trying to get dressed, and my uncle was rushing her to get ready. She realized that she had forgotten to make the pie, so she ran into the kitchen to let it cook while she did her hair. She opened a can that was sitting on the counter, dumped it into the pie crust, and threw it in the oven. While she finished her hair and makeup, she smelled something funny coming from the kitchen. As she checked on the pie, she realized that instead of grabbing the can of pie filling, she grabbed a can of tuna fish. It was my grandmother’s first time meeting my aunt, but she didn’t judge her. My grandma thought it was the funniest thing to ever happen, and she and my aunt still joke about it every Thanksgiving. I think what made this story a story was the emotion and the sequence of events. If the story was told out of order it wouldn’t have made sense. If the emotion my grandma expressed when telling the story was different/more negative it would have changed the story completely as well.