Tuesday, April 24, 2012

One of life's little mysteries

What's up with socks?

How is it possible that I can put guaranteed pairs in the washing machine and when they come out of the dryer I only have one to the set?

Do socks have secret lives we know nothing about?

Are there underground catacombs that connect washers and dryers around the world that we mere  humans can't access, see or sense?

Do they get tired of their partner and go off and seek new ones?

Do they grow weary of my detergent and seek machines with better fabric softener or *gasp* a human that uses bleach?

How is it that (occasionally) socks will show up in a size that NO one currently wears? One offs  that I know I have never bought in my life?

And just where do the missing socks go?

Where do those other's come from?

Questions that will be left unanswered....

4 comments:

Joel said...

Socks and laundry machines provide empirical proof of the existence of other spatial dimensions besides the usual three.

This has long been known, though remains unproven.

Don said...

Everyone believed Albert Einstein was working on a grand unified theory when he died. Not true! He had finally worked out where those socks went and passed from the shock of it.

MONSTER said...

Why is it when driving down the road you only see one shoe or boot lost by it`s self. Is it that it`t partner has gone to get help. Or has it too gone inter dimensional and joined the socks. We should be watching for their return. And we should be afraid. Very afraid.

The Grey Lady said...

Heh...who knew that socks were the key to get the strong silent types to open up?

Certainly not me....

The cattleman thinks it is a conspiracy of the chinese government. Homing devices are put in one of each pair of socks, those that make it home are immediately repaired and then resold to other witless, unsuspecting westerners. All in an effort to destabilize our culture.

(that is NOT actually true, I just said that so I wouldn't appear wishy washy on my theory of the nature of socks...)