2007-09-19 07:45:48 · 29 answers · asked by Chris M 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's 'Sod's law'.
Try looking in the last place first!
2007-09-19 07:54:23 · answer #1 · answered by ☞H.Potter☜ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you would stop and think, retrace your steps and remember where you left it, then it would usually be in the first place that you look. (Which of course would also be the last place) but instead most people freak and panic and start trashing the place so they wind up looking in lots of places they shouldn't. Everything should have a place of it's own and you should always make sure to use it.
Otherwise, I'd agree with the person that said, duh!
2007-09-19 07:59:08 · answer #2 · answered by Dr Awkward 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you don't carry on looking once you've found what you are looking for. If you did then it wouldn't be in the last place it would be within the list of places you looked.
2007-09-19 08:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by Kayleigh B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe this, the next time something is lost just go directly to the last place that you would look. If this doesn't work then, the hypothesis is incorrect or untrue.
The issue is how do we avoid finding what we seek by looking everywhere else other than where the object is.
2007-09-19 11:41:13 · answer #4 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It could of course be found in the first place you looked which would then also become the last place!
My head hurts...
2007-09-19 11:41:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you look in the right place last.
2007-09-19 07:50:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because if you kept on looking after you found it that would be silly and if it was in the first place you looked that would also be the last place you looked cause you wouldnt go on looking after that would you
2007-09-19 07:53:59 · answer #7 · answered by CARL D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is your brain doing a recheck on all the other stuff you might be looking for in the future, because if you found it first off you wouldn't do the check. The brain is not as dumb as you sometimes think!
2007-09-19 09:00:17 · answer #8 · answered by jingles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy, you obviously look in the most likely place first.
All you need to do is look in the most unlikely place first, then
work backwards.
2007-09-19 08:01:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, if it wasn't, then you'd still be looking.
[ actually, if it was in the First place when you found it, then it would still be the LAST place you looked too, of course ;-) ]
Sash.
2007-09-19 07:55:24 · answer #10 · answered by sashtou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋