Something to Ponder or to use your imagination on-What happens to that missing sock that you put in the dryer? Did it

[debm55]

run away because it was sick of it's mate.? Did it get sucked in the washing machine? Is it clinging for dear life on a towel? Where is it??????????

[PlutosHeart]

1. I have 6 lone socks

at the moment. I don't know the answer to your question but it is truly baffling.

[debm55]

3. Can you bring them together to mate them ? That's something to ponder?

[PlutosHeart]

37. Crossed my mind

but they are totally different species.

[debm55]

38. Ty PlutosHeart, all our socks are the same species.

[rubbersole]

2. Sock divorce.

The missing one just went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back...

[debm55]

5. Something for me to ponder --what did you do with the sock left behind???? Sorry rubbersole's sock.

[rubbersole]

8. Well, the remaining one quit smoking

[debm55]

10. Great idea, ty, rubbersole.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. the dog buried it in the back yard.

[debm55]

6. Oh my, What are you going to the one left behind?

[AllaN01Bear]

20. sitting with the rest of its buddies.

[kimbutgar]

7. I have a bag of lost unpaired socks sometimes I find the mate and reunite them

But now I put my socks in a zippered mesh bag and wash them and never lose socks anymore!

[debm55]

9. Ty kimbutgar, Very sood suggestion. We do that too. But, what about your socks in the bag with no mate, all alone?

[kimbutgar]

21. I keep the lost sheep socks in a separate bag and every now and then find the partner!

But I recently did a sock purge and threw some of the lost unpaired away!

[debm55]

22. Thank you kimbutgar. I am glad you found their partner. But you threw the others away? What can I say? I am at a loss

for words,

[pandr32]

11. I often see a sock that has been run over in a pot-hole or along the side of the road.

I guess they made a break for it, but weren't victorious.

[debm55]

12. Oh my, pandra32. Did you stop and offer help?

[lastlib]

14. There's nothing you can do for them at that point.

Just pray for their soles...........

[debm55]

15. HAHAHA .TY lastlib

[pandr32]

17. Some of them are pretty holey,

... but most of them never got toed in time to make it.

[debm55]

23. Thank you pandr32. Your post makes sense.

[lastlib]

13. Aliens.

One-footed aliens.
Or maybe three-footed, and they stole a pair somewhere..... IDK--just aliens.

[debm55]

18. TY lastlib. I see that you have pondering this for awhile. Perhaps this will occur during the eclipse?

So they have a meaning to the their lives.

[cbabe]

16. '... Hung by the chimney with care...'

[debm55]

29. HAHAHAHAHAH That's funny

[Niagara]

19. Here's what happens in my household

I purchase socks that can be mated with another sock if the original mate goes missing.



I'm hard on socks because I walk frequently and my socks will receive newly developed holes in only one sock. So what I do is throw away the one holey one and I forget to find the weakest link one to follow suit in the trash. I have enough cleaning towels and cleaning rags so I don't need to save a holey sock for cleaning.




My major issue with the dryer is that I keep two wool balls in the dryer at all times. The wool balls help lessen drying time and help keep bulkier items from getting entangled together.


However, sometimes the wool dryer balls go missing because they either:

1. rolled out of the dryer as I was removing items and I didn't see it
2. get stuck in a pantleg or shirt sleeve
3. get stuck in a corner of a fitted bedsheet


The missing wool dryer balls don't generally go missing for a long time but it is annoying when it happens.

I don't really have socks that need to go on a missing poster though.

[debm55]

30. I am going to do that ----buy all the same kind of socks so no one gets lost. Ty Niagara.

[Niagara]

36. Yw Dearest Debbie.

[surrealAmerican]

24. I think they may all have made it to the laundry room in my building.

There are probably about ten unmatched socks down there just waiting to be recognized by their owners.

Once those are cleared away more will appear.

[debm55]

31. Ty surrealAmerican. They never leave. They always reappear.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. I put the lone socks into the sock drawer.

Sometimes, the mate shows up within a few laundry cycles. Other times, the sock turns into a key that fits no known lock.

[debm55]

32. Ty JustABozoOnThisBus. I hope they find their mate.

[Chakaconcarne]

26. pin them together when you wash 'em.

[debm55]

33. That's a good idea. TY

[CaptainTruth]

27. Did you watch "Ren & Stimpy" & "Stranger Things"?

Years ago there was a Ren & Stimpy episode where they went on some sort of mind trip (maybe ate mushrooms?), totally tripping & hallucinating, & ended up in the place where all the lost socks went.

Then, a few (?) years ago Stranger Things did an episode where two of the characters went on what looked like an LSD trip, totally tripping & hallucinating, & ended up in the place where all the lost socks went.

There's enough time between the two that I swear the Stranger Things writers MUST have seen that Ren & Stimpy episode because they copied it in so much detail. I loved it.

Anyway, those two episodes of those two shows will give you your answer.

[debm55]

34. TY Captain Truth. I will have to watch. sounds like the isle of Misfit Toys.

[qwlauren35]

28. Dwarf hats.

It just popped in my head.

[debm55]

35. Ty you qwlauren35. I never sthought of that.

[Brother Buzz]

39. They run off and elope with one the many pencils I've lost in my life, and live happily ever after

Love is grand!

[debm55]

42. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. TY Brother Buzz and pen, too.

[Wicked Blue]

40. It's in the Fourth Dimensiona

and has a life of its own.

[debm55]

41. Ty Wicked Blue. Perhaps you are right.

[Harker]

43. Lily has it.

Any socks she finds she brings to my wife.

[debm55]

45. Thank you Harker. Glad is your source of missing socks.

[Jeebo]

44. I've always thought they slip through a portal into another dimension.

You know, like the portal in that Twilight Zone episode "Little Girl Lost" when the parents woke up hearing their little girl's voice but could not find her. It was an invisible temporary hole that opened up in the wall behind the little girl's bed, and then the family dog disappeared into it too, and then the family's physicist friend came over and found the hole, marked off its boundaries on the wall, and held on to the little girl's father while he partially disappeared into the hole and pulled the little girl and the dog back out as the hole was closing up. There is a hole into another dimension just like that one that opens up whenever you turn your dryer on, and one or two socks always disappear into it.

-- Ron

[debm55]

46. Thank you Jeebo, Makes sense.

[malthaussen]

47. Alternate dimension.

Akin to Terry Pratchett's L-space. Lots of stuff ends up there: socks, Tupperware lids, pencils... the list goes on. Perhaps they're taken there by some Cosmic Magpie with very poor taste.

-- Mal

[debm55]

48. HAHAHHAHAH Thank you Mal.