The Last Place You Look

One of the most irritating things in life has got to be that whenever you are looking for something, it's always in the last place you look.

There is an immediately obvious explanation for this and that is that if you knew which was going to be the last place, you would go straight there and find it, but you can't because it would now have become the first place you looked. And besides, for this to work you would have needed to know where the thing was from the start, which means that you aren't really looking for it.

This is, of course little consolation. There seems to be no alternative to scouring around for the missing thing, only to find it in the very last place you look.

Not so - for I have now developed a new search technique which guarantees that you do not find the thing in the last place you look. This is what I do. When I have found the thing I'm looking for, I carrying on looking in a few more places. This method guarantees that you find the thing before you get to the last place you look.

Brilliant, or what?

Mike 5 Dec 2001

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