Kobayashi Maru

 

My dear wife—my insightful, dear, almost always right wife—looked at me and said, "Tommy, you're obstinate."

I was about to object when it hit me: I'd just entered the Kobayashi Maru.

Deny it? Evidence.

Admit it? Confirmation.

Argue about the definition? More evidence.

Somewhere, Captain Kirk is smiling and wondering if there's a way to reprogram this test