Not a snake, thank goodness

My mother used to say, when she helped me find something I was searching for, "If it was a snake, it would have bitten you."  I'm ususally pretty good at finding things but I had a "snale bite" moment this morning.  To start at the beginning, two weeks ago I bought a recliner, actually a love-seat size double recliner.  It was ordered and I was told it would be delivered withing two to four weeks.  I was also told to keep my paperwork so I could track delivery time.  Two days ago I had a call from the furniture store.  The chair will be delivered on Halloween.  I was told to check my paperwork, call after 5pm the day before and use my order number to verify delivery time.  Then I started hunting for the paperwork.  I distinctly remembered puting it in a good, safe plaee. For two days, in all my spare minutes I searched for that paperwork.  I went through every stack of papers on my desk and even looked in some files to see if I had accidentally put it in the wrong place.  I even searched through my basket of paperwork to be shredded.  No luck, so I finally decided I would just have to call the furniture store and ask them for the onformation I needed.  And then it happened.  I was sitting at my desk this morning working on my computer, and happened to glance up.  There, on the top shelf above my desk, right out in the open, sat my paperwork.  The not so lost has been found. If it had been a snake it would have bitten me.