This one hit a little closer to home. And I'm still questioning my sanity/memory. This evening my friend K. texted me that a former student of mine had been arrested for a certain misdemeanor. It was a real surprise to both of us, who'd have never expected such a thing from this particular student. We texted back and forth a few minutes, and this was while I was in Austin with my husband. We had just finished up at one place and were heading to another when K. and I were texting. I said nothing to my husband until a few hours later at a friend's house when the general subject of crime came up. I turned to, my husband and said, "Oh, yeah, one of my [identifier] students --" before I could finish, he said, "I know; he [insert specific crime]."
"How did you know?" I asked.
"You told me," he said.
"When?"
"Last week."
I tried to explain I had only just learned about this, even showing him K's text. He insisted that not only had I told him last week, but the two of us had even gone online to see if it had made the news yet. He even knew that it had happened in the very location that it had happened -- a detail he couldn't have guessed at. He said we did this search from his office in his study.
We haven't found any trace of our alleged online search on any of our computers. I have no idea where this memory of his comes from. I only know that if I HAD known about the incident, I'd have told K. before going home and telling my husband. The fact that she was the one that told me proves to me I didn't know until then. Furthermore, I wouldn't have known about the incident UNTIL it made the news.
Naomi West
