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.
My mother always said “Mothers can find things that aren’t there.”
My mother banned any phrase beginning ‘where are my…’ from the house
As indeed they can, Dot. Disgruntled, did it work though?