I'm always surprised when people don't see this. If my wife is looking for her car keys, she will look in her purse, on the kitchen counter and in her coat pocket. Then she goes back to her purse, back to the kitchen, and back to her coat. Then back to the purse -- because those are the areas that "make sense".
Meanwhile, I check the bathrooms, the dining room, the porch, and the garage. She thinks I'm crazy -- "Because I wouldn't leave my keys in those places!"
I find her keys quite often. Because if they were in her purse, she wouldn't be asking me to look. If she asks for my help, then the keys are not in the obvious places and are, by definition, in a place that makes no sense.
Sorry, but in my experience, no matter how many times she’s searched her purse, she eventually finds it in there somewhere.
After which I point out that I always put my keys in my left front pocket, every. single. time. And you know, that’s where I always find them. I don’t score any points, but by that point, I’m beyond trying to score any, having waited on her for five or ten minutes to find her phone before we depart on our trip.