He still doesn't understand why this hurts my brain...
When I started work over three weeks ago, I decided that I would sometimes take lunch to work with me. I found Mental Boyfriend's old lunchbox atop the fridge and took that to work with me two days in a row. On the third day, I did not take it but left it in the kitchen. A few working days later, I went to take lunch to work with me and could not find the lunchbox anywhere in the kitchen/dining room/living room area. I looked in cupboards and everything. When I got home, I asked Mental Boyfriend where he had put the lunchbox. His answer?
"In the closet in the spare room."
"Why?"
"That's where the other one was."
"Wait, you really put it in the closet in the spare room?"
"Yes."
"That doesn't make any sense. Why would I ever look there for it?"
"That's where the other one was."
"So you really think I would look in the closet in the spare room for the lunchbox I left in the kitchen?"
"Well, that's where the other one was."
"But I left it in the kitchen because I'm using it and that's where I use."
"The other one was in the closet."
I gave up after that. I realize that he was trying to keep the lunchboxes together (I didn't know there was another one in the closet), but it never occurred to him that I left it in the kitchen for a reason and that putting it somewhere I would never look for it even though I was using it was a bad idea.