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Posted By: Grace, on host 205.164.129.195
Date: Monday, December 20, 1999, at 15:01:35

After over an hour of searching high and low and sideways and upside down for his missing electric screwdriver, my father, upon finding it exclaimed "It's always the *last* place you look!"

Every time I hear this expression, it elicits a reaction similar to a sip of OJ after brushing your teeth. It's always the last place you look? Of course it is! Why on earth would you continue looking once you've found the thing?? Does this strike anyone else as a ridiculous statement of the obvious? Is there ever a place you look *after* finding something? Just to make certain it isn't there, too? Could you possibly find something in the second-to-last place you look? Even if you find the thing in the *first* place you look, isn't that place still the *last* place as well?

Gr"just smile and nod..."ace

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