Daniel: Where are my shoes?
Me: Did you try your bedroom?
Him: Yes.
Me: Are you sure?
Him: Yes.
Me: If I go upstairs and find them in your bedroom, I will be displeased.
Him: I can’t find them.
I toil upstairs and find the shoes beside his bed.
Me: Dan, they were in your room right beside your bed – the most obvious place.
Him: Oh, I was looking in the unobvious places.
Dot says
20 July, 2013 at 18:56My mother always said “Mothers can find things that aren’t there.”
disgruntled says
20 July, 2013 at 22:11My mother banned any phrase beginning ‘where are my…’ from the house
belgianwaffle says
31 July, 2013 at 11:48As indeed they can, Dot. Disgruntled, did it work though?