After enjoying a pleasant dinner at our usual Italian restaurant, we were sipping post-meal coffee and chatting aimlessly when she said, "There was this one place with really great salad dressing, right?" "Huh? Did we go to a place like that?" "Oh… right. I went there with friends." I remember there was an awkward silence between us for a moment. At the time, I didn't think too deeply about it, but if I had been a bit more courageous, I probably would have asked—Did you really go there with friends?—
