If someone said to you in conversation — “the other day” — how would you, by default, and with no other frame of time offered by the speaker, interpret that phrase in the context of time?
Does “the other day” mean “yesterday” or “two days ago” or “last week” or “less than a week” or something else — and would you ever ask for a more specific time and date stamping — or am I the only one who cares about precision in storytelling?