After seven years of marriage my wife is now able to read my mind, this spectacular ability was demonstrated live in front of 7 other family members at a dim sum restaurant today. I’ll explain:

There is a rice and pork dish that I must have whenever we go to dim sum – we ordered it, it was swell. I asked my wife to order more of the same when that trolley returned (I would’ve done it but I don’t speak Chinese). The trolley returns and after a brief exchange with the server my wife tells me that the dish is sold out for the day—okay, no problem—we continue to enjoy the other dishes.

As we are finishing up a waiter half-way across the dining room is walking with a plate that looks slightly like the “allegedly-sold-out” rice and pork dish and delivers it to another table, I say nothing, I just casually observe. My wife, who has been speaking with her sister in deep conversation, turns to me briefly and says “That was not what you think it was, that one has sesame in it.” and then returns to the conversation with her sister. My jaw dropped.

Now that I’m retelling this story I don’t know if I should be more impressed with her mind-reading or being able to detect the ingredents of a dish from 50 paces away.