Only three days to our wedding anniversary…or two if you’re my wife. While driving with our daughter Sarah in the back seat some years back I remarked on how poorly my wife remembers major dates. She insisted her memory was just fine, so I asked, “when is our wedding anniversary?” and she said, “July 7th!”
Of course, it’s the 8th, and Sarah and I got a good laugh out of that one.
But my favorite story is that for quite some time it was fairly easy to surprise my wife on her birthday. Not because she expected so little of me, but more because she seldom seemed to remember that it even was her birthday.
So some years ago I wanted to “surprise” her with a gift, and as I walked in the door with it hidden behind my back the first thing she blurted out was, “it’s my birthday!” I said, “how did you know?” (a question that clearly betrayed my expectations), to which she replied, “the bank texted me.”
There’s a lot of history here.
She forgot her birthday this year though