Anne Rogers wrote:
if I start having to record that I'll start having to worry, any kind of
auto accident should be a significant enough and rare enough event that
the date stands out.
If you're like me, just because the event stands out in
your mind doesn't mean that you also remember the date it
happened ;-)

fair enough, I'm guessing that you'd remember enough to calculate the year
and month it happened, though I guess as life goes on that might be more
tricky.

Believe me, it gets much more tricky! If it didn't happen
near a move or a birth or something like that, it's very unlikely
I'll figure it out. When the kids get older, there's not this
huge difference from year to year. No way would I be able to narrow
it accurately to a month for most things, unless maybe they happened
very near a holiday--but even then I might not get the year! E.g.,
I'll know something happened near Christmas, but won't know which
Christmas. I'm quite loosely situated in time ;-)

Best wishes,
Ericka