Wednesday, November 28, 2018

A great constancy in marital matters

From The Diary of Samuel Pepys, the entry for January 6th, 1663. Three-and-a-half centuries ago. Pepys and his wife have returned in a coach from having spent a couple of nights at Lord Sandwich's lodgings in Whitehall Palace.
Myself somewhat vexed at my wife’s neglect in leaving of her scarf, waistcoat, and night-dressings in the coach today that brought us from Westminster, though, I confess, she did give them to me to look after, yet it was her fault not to see that I did take them out of the coach.
She tells him to look after her things.

He forgets to remove them from the coach.

He blames her for not noticing that he failed to remove them from the coach.

Got it. Human nature.

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