Where did my socks go and other great life mysteries

[SilentMute]

I always wondered where the socks went that disappeared when you put them in the washer or dryer. I saw two socks go in. One comes out. Sometimes it wind up tangled in the sheets or a bra, but usually it is lost forever.

The man that owns our laundry claims that socks get sucked into an area underneath the spinning part of a dryer or washer because they are so lightweight. That, of course, sounds very logical. However, I have my doubts. Why is it that it is always the cute socks that go missing? I'll have a solid color sock that is made of the same material, and it never goes missing. But if a sock has kitties or hearts or something awfully cute, it is doomed to disappear.

I personally still believe that there are washer/dryer fairies that steal your socks.

Anyway, I decided to devote this thread to such mysteries about life. I can't believe I am the only one who has ever wondered about such things. Please share the common things in daily life that mystify you: how do people that you are expecting to call you always know when you are on the toilet?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I only buy plain white and plain black socks. No patterns.
This way you simply match up the color. If your eyes are full of gravel in the morning, you can still distinguish the whites from the blacks.
As the numbers dwindle by virtue of being sucked into the sock netherworld you mention, I simply buy another bag rip it open and dump the contents into the drawer.

Here’s one for ya: The mystery of the roadside shoe.
When driving the highways and back roads of Texas, one will notice the proliferation of footwear lying on the road side, and while that alone might raise an eyebrow, what is most mysterious is the fact that you will see only one shoe or boot, never a matching pair.



Gilliatt

[SilentMute]

Hmmm. I do see pairs--usually hanging on phone lines. Often they look like good pairs of shoes.

What I often see by the roadside is wigs. I always wonder what the story behind that is too. Did someone's hair blow off? Did it get ripped off their head?

[YesNo]

the common things in daily life that mystify you: how do people that you are expecting to call you always know when you are on the toilet?

That's happened to me. :)

[papayahed]

I only buy plain white and plain black socks. No patterns.
This way you simply match up the color. If your eyes are full of gravel in the morning, you can still distinguish the whites from the blacks.
As the numbers dwindle by virtue of being sucked into the sock netherworld you mention, I simply buy another bag rip it open and dump the contents into the drawer.

Here’s one for ya: The mystery of the roadside shoe.
When driving the highways and back roads of Texas, one will notice the proliferation of footwear lying on the road side, and while that alone might raise an eyebrow, what is most mysterious is the fact that you will see only one shoe or boot, never a matching pair.

Gilliatt

For work I buy white gold toes. I love the fact that I don't have to think about matching my socks to each other or my outfit. AND every chirstmas I get two new packs of socks!


Hmmm. I do see pairs--usually hanging on phone lines. Often they look like good pairs of shoes.

What I often see by the roadside is wigs. I always wonder what the story behind that is too. Did someone's hair blow off? Did it get ripped off their head?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shoes+on+a+wire


I have to say I've never seen a wig on the highway. I have seen the one shoe and once I saw a headless deer. At first we though it got ran over but as we got closer it looked like somebody removed the head and ditched the rest of the body.

[MANICHAEAN]

Silent Mute
I suggest you speak to Prince. He is suspect number one in recommending that we males try writing whilst wearing female unmentionables. Check out his laundry basket!
M.

[Scheherazade]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shoes+on+a+wire
OmiGod!

That I did not know or expect. There are three pairs hanging from telephone lines all within 5 minutes' walk and we often joke about them.


I have lost many single socks to the Powers-that-Wash but I don't mind wearing odd socks so not too worried.

[Emil Miller]

...once I saw a headless deer. At first we though it got ran over but as we got closer it looked like somebody removed the head and ditched the rest of the body.

There is a video on today's MSN that shows lots of cattle and some horses believed to have been killed and similarly mutilated by aliens. Do you believe in UFOs and little green men? Because they have been known to kidnap people as well.

[Lokasenna]

As well socks, my familt seems to have a problem with teaspoons. Over the course of six years, we managed to somehow lose 20 of the damn things. But where to? Seriously, they never leave the kitchen, we hand-wash all our crokery and cutlery (so nothing's getting lost in a dishwasher's innards), and we haven't lost any other cutlery. Fortunately, we were able to buy the same design of cutlery to replenish our stock, but if some kleptomaniac friend/relative is making off with them, why only teaspoons and nothing from the rest of the set?

We're seriously beginning to wonder if some malevolent, spoon-obssesed elf is hiding out in our kitchen.:shocked:

[Lulim]

@Lokasenna, are there living small children in your / your family's household? Because my children, when smaller, used to open the cutlery drawer, pull out whatever they got hold of -- obviously, that's been the teaspoons, lying at the front, they couldn't reach the cutlery behind them -- and distribute it all over the place. Later on, they reappeared miraculously.

[papayahed]

There is a video on today's MSN that shows lots of cattle and some horses believed to have been killed and similarly mutilated by aliens. Do you believe in UFOs and little green men? Because they have been known to kidnap people as well.

1) This was a clean cut, not mutilated. It seemed odd but when I came back that same way I saw two guys had stopped and were in the process of cutting off the front paw(?) hoof (?). So I chalked it up a Louisiana hunter that wanted a trophy but not the res tof the deer, which in and of itself is weird unless the deer died of disease.

2) uhhhh yeah, I believe in aliens. Don't worry though I've built a hyperknueton cage in my bedroom, it scrambles the beam the aliens use to transport people up to the ships. I'm working on a travel version.

[Lokasenna]

@Lokasenna, are there living small children in your / your family's household? Because my children, when smaller, used to open the cutlery drawer, pull out whatever they got hold of -- obviously, that's been the teaspoons, lying at the front, they couldn't reach the cutlery behind them -- and distribute it all over the place. Later on, they reappeared miraculously.

Nope, no children. At least, not visiting consistently enough to be the problem. I'm still betting on elves...

[Whifflingpin]

It's the hole in the world - anything not tied down tends to go down the hole in the world.

[L.M. The Third]

Loved that sock post, Silent! So funny, but strangely true. I read this to my mom and she exclaimed with great enthusiasm as I read, "That's true! That's true!"

My theory is that washers (or is it dryers?) need nourishment, in the form of one's favorite socks. :D

[papayahed]

bumpy

[Stanislaw]

bumpy

:lol: I used to watch that show all the time, it was one of my favorites!!


I have always wondered why when I need to find something the item develops temporary invisibility, and when I no longer need it it uncloaks in plain site! (I blame the romulans)

[kasie]

....We're seriously beginning to wonder if some malevolent, spoon-obssesed elf is hiding out in our kitchen.:shocked:

Lok - he visits in my kitchen as well. Sadly, my everyday cutlery design was discontinued some years ago, so now my teaspoons match nearly but not quite the rest of the things. However I've found a way to fool him: I bought not one but two sets of spoons - now i have so many, he's not sure if I have noticed that he has half-inched one and puts it back quietly when I am not looking...

There is also a knife-grabbing maniac passing through now and then. He always steals my favourite paring knife but - I know where he hides them! They always come to light when we empty the compost bin......


.....I have always wondered why when I need to find something the item develops temporary invisibility, and when I no longer need it it uncloaks in plain site! (I blame the romulans)

Blame your own brain, Stan - it's something to do with perception but I forget exactly how it is explained. It happens to me all the time (and I used to blame my husband for moving things) and apparently it gets worse as you get older.

.....Just thought I'd cheer you up with that little nugget on a Monday morning.....

[papayahed]

I want to know how the the people who steal all my pens manage to sneak in my house and put them in my washing machine.

[PoeticPassions]

I have had articles of clothing go missing... not in the washer or dryer, but they have mysteriously disappeared. I have lost my favorite dress.. I wonder how, since I never lent it to anyone, and surely I couldn't have left it somewhere without noticing. There are several possibilities, I suppose... one is that I lost it while traveling (left it in a hotel or something). Another is that it was stolen (how or why I don't know). But this has happened with several other favorite pieces of clothing...

Oh and I am surprised no one has mentioned ghosts by now :D