How do I ask my partner to stop correcting small details while I'm telling a story?
Relationships"It was Wednesday, not Tuesday," my partner said while I was telling friends how we'd ended up at the wrong picnic spot. A minute later he corrected the colour of the sign. Then he added the street name I had forgotten.
The corrections were accurate. They also meant I kept losing my place, and eventually I said, "You tell it, then." The table went quiet. On the walk home, he said I'd embarrassed him for trying to help.
I hadn't been trying to mislead anyone. The point was that we'd both followed different directions and arrived carrying half a picnic each. He says getting details wrong makes the story confusing, and sometimes he has been right about that. But I was about to get to the two bags of bread when I gave up.
How would you explain the difference between a useful correction and an interruption without asking him to ignore every mistake? I also need to apologise for the way I snapped.