List ... for future reference

     This was the list I typed up in desperation when my daughter was headed for her first ever trip to Europe and didn't know where her passport was...  Before a vacation to the Bahamas a few years ago, I had been forced to tear the house apart when I realized that I couldn't find her passport.  So, this time, when she asked me if I had her passport, I started looking for it in the obvious places.  I pretty quickly concluded that, no, I didn't have her passport but, given my history with it, I wasn't willing to swear that I didn't.
     Well, SHE wasn't looking for it and my search could only end definitively when the damn thing turned up.
     The days went by...her trip was only a week away and the passport still hadn't appeared.  Since it didn't seem to me (or to H) that she was seriously working on this, I printed out the check list below so that she would understand that the ball really was in her court.  (The list was also part of my effort to make sure I had left no stone unturned - I had been frantically tearing things apart, pulling things out, sorting and shredding for days).
     Finally, a friend's mother found V's passport in a safe.
     I didn't have to say anything;  V. decided that she would, from then on and forever more, put her passport in the care of an organized person (her mama I think).
     When she landed in Berlin, her sister confiscated her passport.  We were all laughing about it, and V is a good sport.  
     So, I won't need this list for V's passport, but who knows what document I might need to turn up in the future?
             bank deposit box (2 times)
             drawer with misc. papers in kitchen
             m. bedside table (empty)
             h. bedside table (empty)
             files in computer desk (completely empty out drawer)
             top drawer computer desk (completely empty out)
             all shelves in computer desk (completely empty out)
             h. top “drawer” in closet
             other drawers in closet
             white shelves in closet (empty out)
             m. plastic drawers in closet
             m. desk in closet
             sweater box in closet
                         y colorin colorado, este cuento se ha acabado