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Because why would you continue to look for something you have already found?
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There was an old Mitch Hedberg bit about this that I’ll probably butcher:
“It’s always in the last place you look. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you found it?” >

I hadn’t heard that bit, but it was exactly what I was thinking this morning when I was looking for something. >

This is why I always skip the first place I’d look for something.  I don’t always find it, but I never stop looking.