text: When we get older it seems that we develop selective memorynAbout a month ago a couple visited us and my wife convinced me to leave the security of my comfort zone and try this placenAgainst every fiber of my being I obliged and I drove the extra minutes to get therenThe atmosphere was pleasant nice and dark They gave us bread and a little plate of olive oilnWe ordered a few entrees and maybe calamari for an appetizernOverall it was not badbut totally forgettablenThen the check arrivednI actually added everything up to make sure they had not made an error in their arithmetic or to see if they had put a bottle of Dom Perignon on our tab by mistakenInstead of chastising my wife because it was all her fault I decided to just put it out of my memorynIt worked because I had not thought about it until just now when I saw one of their commercials between my episodes of Everybody Loves RaymondnLike I said I cannot remember anything glaringly wrong with the meal but it is because I cannot remember a single entreenInstead I remember the amount of the billnI was also reminded of the fact that I did not accept our friends offer to split the tab nIm an idiot