Somebody at the desk, filling in a form, entirely conversationally:
— how long have you been training?

Seven years. Then I corrected it to five.

— which is it?

Seven. I have been taking those two years out of the total for a long time
and I have decided to stop doing that.
They went in the box. The form cannot tell the difference. Neither, now, can I.

The Book of the Phoenix — Return 62:7