Where?

[Nigel Molesworth]

OK, I know this is a long shot, but does anyone know where I have put my compact pipe cutter? ;-)

[Roger Wareham]

Pop out and buy another one and you'll find it within five minutes of getting back.

Roger.

[Frank Erskine]

It didn't take me even that long after I'd lost a steel tape measure. I'd searched high and low for it, then went and bought another. Getting back into the car I dropped it into the car door pocket, where it rattled against........ the old one.

[Brian Reay]

Better still, look in the last place you would expect to find it.

After all, whenever you find something you've misplaced it is always in the last place you look ;-)

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

In a compact place.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Sparks]

Probably under the floorboards near where you last used it :-)

Sparks...

[Lobster]

Hmm. That's why I have four tape measures and five (count 'em) stanley knives...

David

[Sam Nelson]

Are you a surgeon, by any chance?

[david lang]

It's in the blue toolbox in the shelf.

Dave

[Nigel Molesworth]

Give that man a cigar! Unfortunately, I had just bought another one.

[Sparks]

:-)

It's always the first place I look (now!) (unless it is less effort ro go buy a new tool!!)

Sparks...

[Sparks]

Lol!

Nope, just done it a few times!

Sparks...

[Alan Deane]

Just outside Norwich?

[RedOnRed]

Did you ever see that Alas Smith & Jones send up of The French Connection where they ripped a car apart looking fo drugs, to the point where there was just a chassis left? They then sat down & looked at each other and asked "is there any where we haven't checked?" To which the other one said "well, there is the glove compartment". They looked in there and there was a huge wad of drugs.

To get to the point...perhaps it's some where to obvious to contemplate.

[Fitz]

I told my wife this the other day when she'd lost something and was proven to be right on that occasion.

Unfortuntately by way of retaliation she pointed out that when I lose something it's actually always in the first place I look - I just don't see it until I've done a full lap of the house and garage. This unfortunately is very true.

[EricP]

You leant it to me ages ago.

Do not expect it's return in the near future.

Sorry

[Dave Jones]

On the second shelf down in the shed, on the left!

[John Rumm]

I spent about five mins today searching for my favourite wire cutters and strippers....

found them where I had left them: in my left hand!

[Rob Morley]

Been there, done that ... now where did I leave the T-shirt?

[Matt]

Not always, sometimes you look everywhere, give up and then find it hours/days/weeks/months later in a place you *know* you've already checked.