There is a huge conspriacy in this country, it affects us all. It seems so benign, and yet, it is enough to make me wonder where is this power coming from.
What i'm talking about here people is SOCKS. Everybody wears them, usually two at a time, and usually of a matched pair.
And yet......every single time i do the laundry, there they are , at least 4 socks with no match. This cannot be. They went in to the washer together, they went into the dryer together.
This weekend, things were getting out of hand. I went through the laundry room and found all the odd socks. THere is a stack there of at least 80 socks. Where are the other 80 socks that match them? My house is not that large, they have to be somewhere.
Perhaps, if enough people got together and brought together all of their odd socks, we could find some matches to our lone socks. It is going to take a grassroots effort to fix this problem. I think the conspiracy is being perpetuated by the sock manufacturers. They must put a homing device on the socks, and by remote control, cause one of the socks to vanish from the premises. THey do this knowing we will have to buy more socks.
It's just not right. THis is AMerica, it's supposed to be the greatest country on the planet, but look what is going on right under our noses. We are being driven mad by simple undergarments....it has to stop!!!!

This is weird. Every time I do laundry, I find at least 4 socks with no match, just like you. But the socks I find with no matches are always socks I do not recognize, have not worn, have never seen before. Big ones, small ones, little baby socks, all different colors and designs, never any that match any socks I own. I've thrown away thousands of single socks with no matches over the years and, for the life of me I just cannot figure out where in the hell they are coming from.

Well, gotta go. Just happens, I've got a load of laundry ready to come out the dryer now. I wonder how many spare socks I'll find this time.

Maybe you've got a sockdolager back there, grabbing socks at random and eating them. (They live off 'em.) Or maybe they float out into the Hozone Layer, where they protect the Earth from dangerous cosmic rays. You just never know.

'Bina.

Ya know, my wife says the same thing...this has the makings of an urban legend....oh it's not, maybe it's terrorist call Homeland Security


'Doc

well, i can bring the threat level down to yellow at my house..out of that pile of 80 odd socks, i found enough matches/near matches to bring the odd ones down to about 30.

I just realized...after looking in on the "don't air your dirty laundry" thread that i posted a thread about socks, which is part of laundry!!! I really wasn't trying to use this forum as my personal blog (honest!) ...i just wanted to put something out there to see if other people were going through the same thing.....and it feels good sometimes to lighten the load a little amongst all the heavy stuff we are dealing with now days.
Why can't we have a world where the only war would be against things like dust bunnies?

Don't worry...I didn't mean THAT kind of laundry.

'Bina.