This paper explores an oral story that shows how embodiment is essential for grasping language in interaction. It shows how stance, which refers to the way speakers or hearers judge the topic of conversation, is an embodied activity. Drawing on theories of discourse analysis, this paper explores data collected in Morocco and asserts that storytelling is a social and interactive practice. A shopkeeper recounts an atypical dining event, which began with commensality and ended with a physical conflict. The storyteller tells his story, enacts its events, and shows stance via complex forms of embodiment, covering contrasts and various ways of generating and copying gestures. Analysis displays that telling a story, beyond a matter of verbal narrative, is performed via embodied enactments to allow for attaining co-participation and alignment.