You Know What They Say About Assuming Things, Don’t You?

You know the old catchprase: You should never assume, because when you assume, you make an ass out of u and me? I assumed until this morning that it happened on an episode of Laverne and Shirley. But then I realized I was wrong, does that make me an a**?

As you’ll see below, the clip is from The Odd Couple. The woman on the witness stand looks somewhat like Shirley from Lavern and Shirley, so I suppose that’s where I came up with that idea. But never the less, I assumed my memory was right. But I’m no bigger of an a** than anyone else. We’re all guilty of these type of memory assumptions.

Thankfully we have the Internet and I could check the facts, but for other memories we’re out of luck. When your sister recounts a memory one way and you remember it another, say that your family had pet duck instead of a pet goose, it’s her word against yours.

Our brain is far from a machine and makes assumptions in how it retrieves information all the time. Sometimes it’s because it’s easier to remember Laverne and Shirley, a show you watched when you were a few years older than when you watched The Odd Couple. Other times it’s because you want to smoothe the memory over a bit. A duck wouldn’t have trapped you in…