# It's always the last place you look **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299 "2017-04-26T16:39:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/1 "2017-04-26T16:39:54Z")
I hate glasses. I find them uncomfortable, annoying, and… I dunno what the word is, but I feel cut off from the world when I’m looking through a lens, like it’s not quite real. So I only wear them in specific situations where I really need to see long-distance. Monday, I leave work to catch the bus, rummage through my backpack for my glasses… no glasses. My spectacles are MIA. This is a bit of a problem, because I have trouble making out bus numbers even with full vision correction. Fortunately, there’s one and a half other people who usually catch the same bus as me. I let them wave down the correct bus and get on after them. Tuesday, I haven’t found my glasses at home, so I check in my locker at work. Still no glasses. Still have to have help catching the bus. Wednesday, I’m off from work. I still haven’t found those glasses. I don’t even know when they went missing, because I’m pretty sure I haven’t used them since Thursday. I resign myself to having to buy a new pair; I go to get my jacket and wallet. Under my jacket is my glasses case, dangling from the hook by the glasses chain. 😕 It seems the cleaning ladies found it on the floor after it fell out of my pack, and for whatever reason decided it belonged hanging on the closet door. I would _never_ have thought to look there in a million years. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/2 "2017-04-26T18:47:08Z")
I lost a hat once. It was on my head ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/3 "2017-04-26T19:12:31Z")
When I was young I used to keep looking for things after I found them. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/4 "2017-04-26T19:18:28Z")
I was trying to find my reading glass and kept asking my ex husband if he seen them anywhere , he kept say “NO!” After turning my condo upside looking for my glasses I told my ex to put down his newspaper , the damn fool has not only seen them he was wearing MY reading glasses ! He said he wondered why he was having a hard time reading the newspaper . :smack: My glasses were also smaller so they would fit tighter on my ex. Yeah my ex face was the last place I looked , it should had been the first place knowing my ex. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/5 "2017-04-26T19:18:50Z")
I’ve looked for love in all the wrong places. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/6 "2017-04-26T19:24:06Z")
Of **course** it’s always in the last place you look! Why on earth would you keep looking after you’ve found it? :smack: [sub]Unless you’re the young **Ike Witt** [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/7 "2017-04-26T19:26:47Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Of **course** it’s always in the last place you look! Why on earth would you keep looking after you’ve found it? :smack: > > [sub]Unless you’re the young **Ike Witt** [/sub] The issue for me was that I couldn’t believe where I would find something and I would go back to the place the item was supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/8 "2017-04-26T19:30:01Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Of **course** it’s always in the last place you look! Why on earth would you keep looking after you’ve found it? :smack: > > [sub]Unless you’re the young **Ike Witt** , of course[/sub] Will it didn’t work that way with my ex husband ! He stopped looking when he found my reading glasses ! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/9 "2017-04-26T19:45:56Z")
♫ But I still haven’t found what I’m lookin’ for. ♬ ([My damned phone](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=824668).) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/10 "2017-04-26T19:52:25Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > When I was young I used to keep looking for things after I found them. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Of **course** it’s always in the last place you look! Why on earth would you keep looking after you’ve found it? :smack: > > [sub]Unless you’re the young **Ike Witt** [/sub] Because if you keep looking you may find another one! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/11 "2017-04-26T20:09:00Z")
Corollary: The last nut or bolt is always the one that won’t come off or go back on properly. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/12 "2017-04-26T23:37:34Z")
It’s easy to lose stuff when other people are moving it. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-the-last-place-you-look/785299/13 "2017-04-27T02:09:28Z")
For me the best way to find something I’ve lost is to buy a replacement.