Unreliable evidence

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I found my missing shopping bag again after three months... in the pocket of a rucksack I hadn't used since taking a weekend away, thus completely disproving my conviction that I had "consciously pushed it aside" in my bag the day before! This neatly explains where and why it had disappeared in the first place, but only goes to emphasise my existing belief that I should make an appallingly bad witness in a criminal case, and that first-hand witness evidence, the supposed gold standard, is actually shockingly unreliable, even when the witnesses are quite honestly convinced that they remember having heard or experienced something :-(


I have decided to retain the string bag which I have been using as a substitute, and to put away the 'flimsier bag' instead, even though the latter takes up less space when folded than the former. I already have another flimsy folding shopper in the pocket, after all...