Myself vs. The Evil Glove box

Just posting this as a heads up.

The top Glove Box in my Gen 3 is moderately filled.
The other day, I got a important receipt and some paperwork I wanted to be sure NOT to lose. I needed it to pick up merchandise in the future. For a pair of glasses.
So anyway, I get in my Prius and throw the receipt and paperwork in the glove box, and proceed on with the rest of my day.
I get home to unload everything, and pop open the glove box. No receipt. No paperwork.

Now...I'm getting old enough that I occasionally question myself. Did I throw the paperwork in with some stuff I bought?
I unload everything and look in every bag. Nothing.
I search drawers and counters thinking maybe I just subconciously or automatically filed it away. Nothing.

I go back to The Prius. Open the glove box, carefully check again. No...Nothing.

I actually start to wonder if someone would of possibly broke into my Prius and stolen just my paperwork?
But that makes no logical sense. Why would they NOT steal more valuable items? Outside of potential identity theft, stealing a receipt and order for glasses- makes no sense.

Finally I reach Occams Razor. I've ruled out every other possibility...well except one.

I open and disconnect the glove box, as you would if replacing the cabin air filter. I still see nothing. But then, way in the back, down a vent like section...just the tip of piece of paper. I reach back and carefully pull out the long receipt and the paperwork, which evidently got sucked out of my glove box and behind to the venting.

Well...just a warning. The Prius Glove Box can be evil and act with it's own agenda.
If it's at all full, it can suck paper behind itself into an alternate and probably evil realm. Requiring retrieval by sticking your hand into darkness.

I have since thrown out a few mint containers and some gum. As well as decided I didn't need a few gadgets I was carrying around with me. Thus making the glove compartment emptier and thus deeper...and so hopefully less likely to toss any papers I might file in this area behind it.

Seems like a bit of a design flaw that it can happen at all.

 

I suspect 4 things.
My glove box was too full.
It angles back when you close it.
I had the air conditioning blasting.
It's Evil.

 

Sorry, I meant "lower box".- Just stupid.
It was the lower box.