Where did you lose it?

Another of the useless sayings: Where did you lose it? Obviously, if I knew where I had lost it, I would have no difficulty finding it. When people ask a relevant question, like, "When do you last remember using or seeing it?" This question is useful...it forces one to trace steps and may trigger the answer to the first useless question.

The second, a useless comment, on this subject is, "You always find it in the last place you look." What a surprise. Why would you keep looking after you found it?

Another useless saying, after you've told someone you have lost something is, "Oh, I had one of those once." How helpful to you is that?

Do people ever listen to what they say to others...if they did, maybe they also would see how many useless things come out of their mouths.