Stories in one sentence

I just came across an article about writing stories in six words. Apparently it was once a challenge given to Hemingway (I think). I have seen stuff like this before and even a site dedicated to stories told in one sentence (or some other ridiculously short format), and I have to say I am not entirely fond of the idea. Certainly it is interesting to try and reduce your work done to something so short, but I feel many people fail at the task. I find myself reading these six word stories and just being disapointed. Certainly it would be a difficult task to write a story in six words. But the point is also to not have to explain the story with more than six words. As always with creative writing show don't tell, and if you get away with your story by telling for six words than you have cheated me. The story cannot be complex. It can't even have more than a single scene. It can't be a metaphor, since really you don't have the time to compare. So overall this task is near impossible to do without leaving the reader feeling cheated, although some would argue that is all right since you've only stolen six words of the reader's time.
I think though, that I am going to stick with the longer stories. I don't need to compress my work down quite that far, nor do I have the skill to do such task. Yet.