DP can't find things (lighthearted --notlighthearted-- )

[AntiHop]

DP is annoying me. He never seems to be able to find things. He is always asking me where things are seemingly unable to find them himself, and even when I tell him where they are he still can't find them. It is driving me up the wall! Today two incidents:
He asks me where a piece of paper he is looking for is. I tell him by the sofa under the tray. He says no, that tray is not by the sofa. I go and find it, exactly where I said it was, under the tray by the sofa.
Later today, he asks me the cap to something is, which I had put out of DD's reach. I tell him exactly which shelf it's on. He looks there and says it's not there. I look, it is exactly where I said it was.
The other day: He asks me if I have seen his hat. He had not even checked in the place he keeps it, which is by his coat. I pointed out to him it was probably there. It was.
AIBU to be really annoyed??

[CalleighDoodle]

When asked where something is and i say where it is, if the response is he cant find it, i say what do you think im going to do that is different to what you can do? He then looks properly. Dont baby him.

[GingerPCatt]

I'm trying to train DS out of this. I'll give him a general location which is usually it's in his toy box but I won't help him look until he's had a good rummage. Unfortunately since he's 4 looking involves taking all of the toys out of the box

[MonstrousPippin]

DH also struggles to find things without my help. I don't know if there is some psychology behind it, but he usually gets to a stage where he declares said item "lost forever". Almost always, after being declared lost forever, it is found about 30 seconds later. This has now almost become a strategy. If he asks me, I say "It's probably lost forever, DH". It seems to instil some subconscious additional determination to find it to prove the "lost forever" declaration wrong! It sometimes works for me too!

[WaitingForMe]

I refer to it as DH outsourcing his thinking. It makes me beyond furious which fortunately means he's now too scared to ask me where things are.

If my stepkids can't find something then they simply don't get to have it. Amazingly they are yet to have to go to school in their socks or swimming without their kit.

[Anniegetyourgun]

If I found something that had been declared missing XH would be sure I must have hidden it in the first place for arcane reasons of my own. After the third time this happened with the credit card I had him taken off as joint user, as I was sick of having to keep changing the number when he reported it lost when it had merely dropped out of his pocket somewhere in the house, and told him to get his own damned card (and preferably a wallet to keep it in). Coincidentally a company he used to have a card with wrote to him that same week hoping to have his custom back, and he was convinced I had arranged that as well. Endless discussion couldn't convince him that if I wanted to take him off my card I would have just told him that's what I was doing instead of going to the trouble of hiding things, whilst if I had arranged for the other card company to contact him I would have said so. Life is really too brief to play the kind of games he seemed to think I was playing.

Enough thinking about the idiot, he makes my head hurt.