Logic
Happy Wife had her hands full with heavy items to go in the wash when I said to her, “Dear, please remember to set the spin cycle to medium with those things, otherwise you know what.” Mildly annoyed with my thinking she needed to be reminded of this, she came back with a most profound reply: “I can’t remember the last time I forgot to do that, dear.”
After a second or two we both laughed. I was sure what she’d said was a classic example of some well known circularity in formal logic.
Moments later, while making the bed, she got all Donald Rumsfeld on me. “You know,” she expanded, “There are things we recall we remembered, things we recall we’d forgotten, and things we can’t recall if we’ve forgotten.”
I backed out of the bedroom, slowly. Whoa. This is why I married this woman.