Where does the other sock end up?

Asa Samuel · #2 10-23-2008, 05:39 AM

Where you least expect it

Mark Latimour · #3 10-23-2008, 05:41 AM

Usually behind my washing basket with the 3 or 4 other items that I "missed" when I threw them in the basket.

René_Julien · #4 10-23-2008, 05:44 AM

My mother does my laundry.

dlloyd · #5 10-23-2008, 06:28 AM

I have given up on identical pairs and have settled for broad similarities.

Baryonyx · #6 10-23-2008, 06:36 AM

In the drawer or at the bottom of the stairs, dropped when the washing was being moved.

ElephantTalk · #7 10-23-2008, 06:46 AM

I had a room-mate in college who would occasionally borrow someone's sock to starch.

He was a pretty weird guy.

**HeavyDuty** · #8 10-23-2008, 06:51 AM

Michael Jackson may be able to offer insight into this question.

Relic · #9 10-23-2008, 06:52 AM

EricF · #10 10-23-2008, 10:01 AM

I subscribe to the theory that socks are the larva form of wire clothes hangers. I'm always missing socks, but my supply of hangers seems to continually increase without explanation.

FL Knifemaker · #11 10-23-2008, 10:07 AM

One of our 6 dogs has taken it to add to their "bed". They're a bunch of 4 legged cleptos

**embellisher** · #12 10-23-2008, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by EricF

I subscribe to the theory that socks are the larva form of wire clothes hangers. I'm always missing socks, but my supply of hangers seems to continually increase without explanation.

That is a very interesting theory, it definitely covers both questions nicely.

I bought my son 12 pairs of non matching dark socks before church camp this summer.
About a month after he got back from camp, every time we are getting ready for church, he comes and asks me for dark socks.

I finally got tired of this, and went to his room to find all of his dark socks and launder them, so he would stop borrowing mine.

What did I find? 8 individual non matching darks socks, and 2 complete pairs. He managed to lose 2 complete pairs of socks, and the mate to 8 additional pairs! And he claims that they all made it back from camp, he managed to lose them in the 4 weeks immediately after camp.

This also answered another nagging question about his socks. I have bought him about 3 dozen pairs of white socks over the past 2 years, and when he does his laundry, he can usually come up with only 12 or 13 pairs of white socks. I told my wife that none of those are pairs, they are all remnants of 12 or 13 pairs, which are missing the other sock.

Croox · #13 10-23-2008, 10:14 AM

the underwear gnomes get them.

mjolnir · #14 10-23-2008, 10:23 AM

They're mobilizing and preparing to stage a military coup on humanity, or as we are more commonly known among their woolen ranks, "The Stinky Oppressors"!

Curtybob · #15 10-23-2008, 10:26 AM

I have seen some weird stuff while remodeling houses. Just a few months ago, we converted a garage into a bedroom and bathroom. Inside one of the walls, there were two socks that had been chewed on by mice. The owner looked like he had heard the secret of life when we told him.... I guess those two socks really bothered his household routine.

MatticusMania · #16 10-23-2008, 10:31 AM

They become dryer lint.

DudeistMonk · #17 10-23-2008, 10:32 AM

I'm sure those guys have a sock racket too.

Tegzsa · #18 10-23-2008, 02:06 PM

I would be suspicious of any unattached or otherwise sexually frustrated males in the vicinity.

It may turn out that you will not be quite so keen to get your socks back though.

i_got_a_mohawk · #19 10-23-2008, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by dlloyd

I have given up on identical pairs and have settled for broad similarities.

I hear that, all my socks are black.

tplyons · #20 10-23-2008, 02:33 PM

The dryer gremlins take them.

I throw out all my socks at once, buy a dozen new pair of white and six new pair of black socks, and take inventory every time I take a wash.

If you count them every time, they don't disappear. But as soon as they realize you're not looking, BAM! They head for the hills.