When you were both there and remember it differently

“You and your partner are cleaning up after having people over — dishes in the sink, chairs to put back, the usual post-party wind-down. At some point it comes up: they think you were dismissive of their friend's new job tonight, cutting off the conversation to talk about something else. You genuinely don't remember it that way. You were engaged, you were interested, and you're pretty sure the conversation just naturally moved on. Now you're both standing in the kitchen with half-dried hands and the same disagreement going nowhere.”