Things to ponder--you put 4 socks in the washer, then the dryer. Why do you sometimes get 3 socks

[debm55]

back.? That goes for any number of socks. I have one missing. Check other clothes and it is lost. What happened to the missing sock??Has this ever happened to anyone? The case of the missing sock/socks.

[WhiteTara]

1. The Sock God demands tithing.

[debm55]

4. True

[WhiteTara]

9. ...

[lark]

2. Those suckers are slick, they find ways to hide.

When you finally throw out the non-matching sock, the other one will inevitably appear someplace weird shortly thereafter.

[debm55]

12. YES, that is so true!! Put I don't throw them out. I honestly believe they will return.

[Ocelot II]

3. They slip into an alternate universe.

It's probably the same alternate universe my cat is hiding in when I can't find her anywhere in the house and start thinking about making Lost Cat posters, until I open a cat food can and she materializes at my feet. Apparently there are portals to and from this universe in my kitchen, and there might be one at the back of my dryer. Maybe I can train the cat to bring back the missing socks the next time she goes there.

[debm55]

6. She hides in your dryer? I just search the floor, the steps. Ocelot II you may be onto something

there about alternate universes of missing socks.

[Ocelot II]

10. The cat can't get into the dryer, it's stacked on the washer

and she can't jump that high any more; she uses only floor-level portals these days. The portal in the dryer is only for socks. But the cat should be able to drag those socks back home through her floor portals.

[debm55]

14. Oh , I see. Thanks

[3catwoman3]

7. I was just aabout to post the same thing, in almost...

...the same words - GMTA!

[sarge43]

43. Same here. It's the only rational explanation

However, cats are definitely involved.

[LakeArenal]

5. You get THREE back. Wow. You must be doing something right.

[debm55]

8. But I put four in. Where did the fourth sock go???? And why is always socks that go missing???

[tblue37]

11. It slips behind the drum.

[debm55]

15. of the washer or dryer? Have you found any there? Maybe I'll look. thanks

[tblue37]

16. It can slip behind either. No, I haven't, but I read this explanation in an article some years ago.

[debm55]

26. Thanks I'll look

[flor-de-jasmim]

13. I found one once when removing lint from the dryer filter.

Years ago someone recommended that we use a safety pin to make sure they stay together. I haven't tried it yet, but there's still time!

[debm55]

18. True. Never thought of the dryer filter. You know, I have these bags for my husband's compression

socks as they are expensive. Should buy a bag for my regular socks.

[MLAA]

17. It was its time to go. It had lived a good life, it will be missed. It will live on in our memory

as a sock of integrity and courage, always putting its best foot forward always carrying its weight without complaint. Never calling in sock.

[debm55]

19. Go where?

[MLAA]

20. To sock heaven, of course! All socks are good so there is no sock hell.

[debm55]

48. Your posts are so funny.

[EYESORE 9001]

21. There's usually a good explanation for where my socks get lost

Like the ones I use to flavor the special soup I prepare for my enemies. It tastes like defeat.

[debm55]

27. Oh you,............

[nevergiveup]

22. It is really simple.

Some socks can't swim.

[debm55]

28. What about the other stuff I wash them with? Couldn't they hold on for dear life?

[ret5hd]

23. something something quantum tunneling...

something something.

[debm55]

30. Asked my husband about it and he explained that there was a article about the missing sock in

Discovery magazine, they offered a theory but he couldn't remember it.

[ret5hd]

34. Actually, I think the female sock eats ...

the male sock after mating.

[debm55]

35. I think that's a praying mantis. Cool.

[Polly Hennessey]

24. Well, dryers have to eat too.

[debm55]

29. Personally, I think it's the washer.

[Midnight Writer]

25. This will be part of TeamTrumps legal defense in the documents case.

[debm55]

31. How so---the washer/dryer made the documents disappear? That's original for trump

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[OilemFirchen]

32. Thought this was settled science.

Some socks transmogrify and become extra plastic storage container lids.

It has something to do with the process that causes clothes hangers to secretly mate.

I'm not an expert, BTW, so you'll have to do your own research.

[debm55]

36. Might be, unlike the missing socks, I have plastic lids with no containers. And tons of hangers---

---metal, plastic.

[A HERETIC I AM]

39. Plastic lids...OR...

Wire hangers.

Got a bunch of wire hangers on the far end of your closet you never used and can’t figure out where they came from?


Socks.

Transmogrified socks.

Simple.

[debm55]

50. Yes, I do notice that all my wire hangers are on the far end of my closet. What do you think they

hiding from????

[A HERETIC I AM]

52. They are hiding from your bulky sweaters....

And boxy jackets you bought 25 years ago because you saw some actress you liked wearing one.

Wire hangers that used to be socks hate that sort of thing.

[debm55]

53. '''''''''''''''''

[AnnaLee]

33. Sometimes the pillowcases just get hungry.

As do the pants legs and long-sleeved tops.

[debm55]

37. Towels are the worse for missing socks, flannel pj too.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

38. My sister had a stacked washer/dryer set, and when she had it replaced

(when I happened to be visiting her), we were amazed at the collection of missing socks (not to mention a washcloth or two) lurking beneath the stack!

[keithbvadu2]

40. Mandatory commission.

[surrealAmerican]

41. I live in a condo with a shared laundry room.

There are always stray socks hanging around the machines - sad, lonely singletons missing their mates.

Sometimes I put six socks in a load, and get seven socks out!

[debm55]

45. That is funny

[struggle4progress]

42. Quantum mechanics

[Hekate]

44. Static cling sucks it into the sleeve of a seldom-worn shirt, to be found next year...

So it goes

[debm55]

46. But these are white crew socks???

[Niagara]

47. For me, that one missing sock is always on the

floor.

[debm55]

49. I have looked on the floor, up the steps, on clothes. Nothing, What did I do wrong that made them

want to leave? And what about the other sock? I saw NO SOCK LEFT BEHIND. Do I hold on to it until the other sock shows up or do I dare say make a sock puppet out of it for the neighbor's kid?

[Niagara]

51. This is a cute idea and might be a possible solution for you.

It doesn't have to be exactly this photo, but something similar. It could a picture frame without the glass and place string to hang up the socks that are looking for a sole mate.





Unless you want to make sock puppets for the neighbor's kid.

[debm55]

54. Love it..........

[Angleae]

55. I always thought it had something to do with black holes, or white holes, or aliens.

[debm55]

58. I think it's the black hole in my washer

[Conjuay]

56. I just wait patiently by the dryer.

One day, I expect to open the door, and have seventy years of missing socks there, warm and fluffy.

Perhaps my suede deer stalker cap that "mysteriously" disappeared in 1979 or '80 will be there as well.

[debm55]

59. Could be or it disappeared in the black hole in the bottom of your washer

[Chakaconcarne]

57. Kind of like the lids for my re-usable food containers....

But those are made to disintegrate after wash 5...I'm convinced.

[debm55]

60. bowls with lids that don't fit--have alot of those

[betsuni]

61. Garrison Keillor, "The Solo Sock":

Of life's many troubles, I've known quite a few:
Bad plumbing and earaches and troubles with you,
But the saddest of all, when it's all said and done,
Is to look for your socks and find only one.
Here's a series of single socks stacked in a row.
Where in the world did their fellow socks go?
About missing socks, we have very few facts.
Some say cats steal them to use for backpacks,
Or desperate Norwegians willing to risk
Prison to steal socks to make lutefisk.
But the robbery theories just don't hold water:
Why would they take one and not take the odder?

Socks are independent, studies have shown,
And most feel the need for some time alone.
Some socks are bitter from contact with feet;
Some, seeking holiness, go on retreat;
Some seek adventure and cannot stay put;
Some socks feel useless and just underfoot.
But whatever the reason these socks lose control,
Each sock has feelings down deep in its sole.
If you wake in the night and hear creaking and scraping,
It's the sound of a sock, bent on escaping.
The socks on the floor that you think the kids dropped?
They're socks that went halfway, got tired, and stopped.

It might help if, every day,
As you don your socks, you take time to say:
'Thank you, dear socks, for a job that is thankless.
You comfort my feet from tiptoes to ankless,
Working in concert, a cotton duet,
Keeping them snug and absorbing the sweat,
And yet you smell springlike, a regular balm,
As in Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps,
And so I bless you with all of the heart,
And pray that the two of you never shall part.
I love you, dear socks, you are socko to me,
The most perfect pair that I ever did see.
I thank you and bless you now. Vobiscum Pax.'
Then you bend down and put on your socks.
This may help, but you must accept
That half of all socks are too proud to be kept,
And, as with children, their leaving is ritual.
Half of all socks need to be individual.