You at least remembered that you left your hat home. The horror times two would have been if you had no recollection on where you've seen your hat last. And if that happens to you on the first day of your vacation, that's a horror story times three. Or perhaps ten. So...

This horror story worked out for the best.

Phew!

"Faith! I yelled. She was out on the balcony off the lounge room. "Where's my hat?!"

If you hadn't muttered, I can see what would have happened.

Faith:

Mad magazine listed once of twice stupid answers to stupid questions with funny illustrations to go with those situations. Like when a person is mowing the lawn and someone walks by asking: "Are you mowing the lawn?" There are so many perfect answers to that, but only one if you want to be a good person. Tricky to find something in between. An answer that tells to anyone actually listening what someone has asked and what you are answering, that you want to be a good person but your inner devil sometimes has a thing or two to say about that.

My usual answer to "Where's my phone / keys / hat / trousers / bag / anything?" is: "It's where you left it." which I know is an annoying answer to someone frustrated and looking for that thing that could save or ruin the day if found / lost forever, but as no-one is actually asking my help and I'm in normal situations fed up with reading between the lines, I'll just answer with that pretty obvious sentence.

I bet there's a list out there in the internet somewhere where people have listed the perfect and the most evil answers when someone is looking for something they have lost (again). I can't google it. I don't want to give my inner devil any more ideas.