Do you remember the first time you tried to explain a problem logically, only to be shut down?

I don’t know what made me think of this, or why I still have this memory 50 years later.

I was 4 or 5. I was looking for something, but couldn’t find it. I asked my mom for help.
She became miffed, and stomped into my room, and snarled, “It’s right here! On top of your dresser! Why didn’t you look harder??” Whatever it was, was also surrounded by other stuff.
I tried to explain that I wasn’t as tall as her, and I couldn’t see the top of the dresser, especially not over all the stuff piled around whatever it was I was looking for.
She dismissed me out of hand because it was “right there” where any fool with two eyes could see it.