Filing cabinet

[jack]

Recently, I got RAC to replace the battery in my car. It was still under warranty, so it was really easy. Until the last moment, here dramatised for your entertainment.

RAC: You don't even have to pay anything.
RAC: Just one minor administrative thing.
Jack's pessimism: Uh-oh.
RAC: Have you got the receipt and guarantee from the battery?
Jack's pessimism: AAAAAAAGH!
Jack: Let me just go and check.
Jack's pessimism: Aaaah! Where on Earth would I have put that to be safe?
Jack's optimism: Have you checked the filing cabinet under "RAC"?
Jack: Oh yeah. Here it is.

I've been filing stuff long enough that important documents are usually in the right place in the filing cabinet, rather than put in a drawer somewhere with five other less-permanently "important" documents from about the same time.

But it's taking years before my instinctive response to needing something is becoming "of course" not "aaaaah!"