Memory is a funny thing. I do not remember anything that I do not actively use, except when I have to. Like the case where I was on the Mexico-US border and I

Memory is a funny thing. I do not remember anything that I do not actively use, except when I have to. Like the case where I was on the Mexico-US border and I was asked by the kind border police to give the dates of all my travel to the US in the last 5 years. I was travelling from France to the US like every month or two. Well, the perspective to stay in Mexico brought back the travel dates pronto. Or the case I was in a taxi with a Spanish speaking driver who had no idea which hotel to drive me to, in the middle of nowhere. My years of Spanish in high school bloomed up pronto as well. I was able to say "my hotel is mauve with a garden in front and back, there is a view on a white church surrounded by a cemetery" My teacher would have been so proud! (I was incompetent to put it nicely)