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...of remaining places so I mentally crossed them off. When I heard one of the other places, it was all I could do to stop myself laughing in his face. He wasted a whole two days getting to that one and even SHE wouldn't have been stupid enough to look there. Then he asked me where I'd looked, but I wasn't stupid enough to tell him that. Instead, I told him the places I hadn't looked yet, just in case he was thinking of carrying on. And I pulled a masterstroke. You'll love this. I gave him some helpful suggestions. I gave him a huge list of all the places I'd been already. His silly, trusting face lit up like the candles on a hundredth birthday cake and I could see it was ''game on'' again for him. Fool!
To cut to the chase, this morning, I found it. Do you know where it was? It was in the last place I looked, of course. But at least I found it. Me. All on my own. Did I mention that?
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