Actually, the last place I looked thing does make sense from time to time...
Let's say I'm looking for a chair for my dorm room and I find the one I'm looking for right away but I'm not convinced so I go to another store to try to find the same chair for less or maybe a better chair (whatever reason you may have) all together. Now let's imagine that I get to the second store and don't find anything better so I go back to where I was before and buy that chair. At that point I didn't just find what I was looking for in the last place I looked...
With that example you can accept someone saying that they found their sock (or whatever) in the last place they looked as a logit phrase.
I rest my case.
Capt. over and out!