My wife has it. I think all wives, girlfriends and women in general have it. The ability to recal and reference an event, statement, phrase, action or scene from way back when.
Instant recall today came swiftly. My wife awoke with a rather alarming tooth abscess, swelling thing going on,like half a chipmunk or a golf ball being chewed. So the hunt was on for emergency dental.
Long story short that we had to travel to one place only to be told that they couldn't help and we had to go back to the other place we could have gone, but didn't open for an hour. Only now it was 1/2 hour since we'd travelled for an hour.
So we arrive at the first choice place on time, having travelled an hour. We live 10 minutes away on a busy traffic day.
Wife has treatment, Visa card gets a work out, and we're in the car on the way to a pharmacy to get antibiotics. I'm making small talk, wondering how she is, is there pain, can I get anything and she says
"you know you were like this wittering on when I'm not interested when I was giving birth"
I stopped for a second and said "whoa that was like 17 years ago"
"Nineteen, I was talking about the first child"
Instant recall. Ouch!
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