If you're disorganized, you'll search in random places until you find it. Joke applies.
But if you are organized, you'll start with the most likely place and progress to increasingly less likely places. When you find it, there's no surprise, and no one gets much of a chuckle over your efforts.
If you don't understand the problem space, then saying "That's the last place I would have looked!" is an expression of exasperation about your lack of knowledge.
But if you are organized, you'll start with the most likely place and progress to increasingly less likely places. When you find it, there's no surprise, and no one gets much of a chuckle over your efforts.
If you don't understand the problem space, then saying "That's the last place I would have looked!" is an expression of exasperation about your lack of knowledge.