It's Always in the Last Place You Look

...because after you find whatever it was you were looking for, you stop looking. However, what about if you had given up looking and just find it accidentally? Yesterday, I found a USB drive I had lost over the summer while doing laundry. (No, it wasn't in the lint trap.) In this case, I guess it technically wasn't in the last place I looked, if you restrict me to only counting places I looked for it. This has the feeling of one of those deep philosophical questions like, "Is the thumb a finger?" or "Is a tomato a fruit?"

(The answer to both questions is "yes," of course.)