[ WP ] We have created technology that gives us perfect memory . Write about the last thing ever forgotten .

All of Dr. Morton's colleagues agreed that he looked disheveled in the hours leading up to his break through. 
 
 As the near perfect embodiment of the absent minded professor stereotype his appearance could often, and only if someone was being especially gracious, be described as disheveled, and as a fixture of the lab he was quite well known and so in everyones mind disheveled was his permanent state which lead to it being common place and largely unnoticed. It speaks to how much of a mess he was that people noticed enough to again think of him as disheveled. 
 
 While necessity is the mother of invention, desperation is the overbearing helicopter mother who makes sure the essay is typed, proofread, with a nice cover and just for good measure the teacher's 100 dollar Starbucks gift card christmas present is handed in at the same time, and fucking up is the angry drill sergeant who's been given permission to metaphorically and literally start a fire under your ass and who just does n't like your face, of invention, and while the professor did love his mother, his chronic forgetting to call her on mothers day being a product of forgetfulness ( which was itself a product of his near boundless genius ) as opposed to any maternal directed ill will, he did find the helicopter parent and the drill sergeant to be the better motivators and so it was not the fear of forgetting his anniversary that lead him to perfecting the technology practically over the night, but the actual forgetting of his anniversary that lead to his perfecting of the technology practically over night. 
 
 Now between coming home late to a frustrated lingerie clad wife, instantly going back to the lab in a burst of being comedically unable to grasp conventions of interpersonal relationships and a 36 hour work-a-thon ( plus some human testing and a roll out campaign ) there were other things forgotten: where glasses were ( on your head ) where the car keys were ( on the kitchen table ) where the kid was ( you left the mall without them ), the forgetting of the 10th anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Morton by Mr. Morton was remembered as the forgotten anniversary heard around the world, and was colloquially referred to as the last thing ever forgotten. 
 
 The other reason that Mr. Morton forgetting his anniversary was considered the last thing forgotten was that Mr. Morton, usually a genius in matters biological, chemical and physical, and usually completely inept in matters human and ( ironically and metaphorically ) of the heart, had a last minute moment of clarity that astounded all who knew him ( with the exception of himself, as right after that thought he was on to thinking about a machine that could subtly survey a significant other and come up with the perfect anniversary gift because a co worker was complaining about not knowing what to get her husband and not because of his own anniversary related marital strife ) when he realized that the key was to remember the anniversary because it was important and not because of an injection that would leave him incapable of ever forgetting anything ( this was also an impressive realization because he never once thought about how forgetting things seemed to be a product of his genius and therefore tampering in anyway with his forgetfulness ( i.e removing it entirely ) may well serve to hamper his genius, but being generally bad at things like this he did n't see the significance of this so he never told anyone so the impressiveness went unnoticed ) and so he chose to forgo actually receiving the injection himself and endeavoured to remember future anniversaries and so to this day he still forgets his anniversary, amongst other things, but the anniversary, being the catalyst that it was, were what people focused on. 
 
 Mrs. Morton, Ph.D was n't happy about the forgotten anniversaries, she was a scientist herself and never had trouble remembering, but she was n't angry. She was touched by the gesture, being especially qualified to understand the significance of Mr. Morton forgoing a scientific advancement in the name of love. 
 
 She knew the man she had married.
