Where is...?

We've all had those moments when you know you have something but can't find it. Sometimes it's right in front of you but you just don't see it.

Today was one of those days. Yesterday we came home with two new purchases, a new coffee maker and an all-in-one printer. Today we put the coffee maker together and it works fine. Then we started looking for the box of extra water filters we bought. We wanted to store it in the same place we kept the filters for our old coffee brewer.

Couldn’t find the box. Looked in all the places it should have been and some places it shouldn't have been, such as the garbage which was by the curb waiting to be picked up. Wasn't there either.

Looked upstairs, downstairs and, yes, in my lady's chambers. No box of filters.

We knew we had it. We checked the Costco receipt and sure enough it was itemized and paid for. We were perplexed and becoming increasingly frustrated.

Then, my wife makes a move toward the printer box which was sitting on the kitchen floor right next to me. On top of the box were two packs of ink cartridges one on top of the other.

She picks up the top pack and there, sitting in a recess of the bottom pack, waiting to be discovered is our box of spare filters.

We felt too silly to be relieved. Now I know where it is. I just checked.