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I swear, every time I think about asking Stack Overflow a question, I find the answer after a few minutes of Googling. I've been a member for at least a year, and I've yet to ask a single question.
Same here on SO. Any question I might be able to answer tends to be flooded with good responses before I see it too.

SF and SU are another matter though. Mostly the answers I need are already there, but questions that I can give useful answers to pop up regularly and there don't seem to be quite as massive a population capable of chiming in (and willing to chime in) on each.

On all three sites it is worth having a browse of the recent and hot questions when you have a quiet moment as other people's questions and the responses, even in areas you consider yourself knowledgeable in, can be enlightening. I often stumble upon something I've wondered but not thought as far as trying/researching/asking, and occasionally I find a discussion that tells me I've been going about something-or-other a long way round.

The thing is, many people don't know what exactly to google. Which turns out to be a good thing, because the answer can now be found when searching for yet another keyword(s)