You don't need to know this at all, but...

[thanate]

There's been one brown sock sitting on the couch in my room for about a week now, because I wore it for a couple hours one evening (so it wasn't really particularly dirty, or not enough to quite merit washing) and then have been utterly unable to find its little sock friend. Anyway, I just gave up and put it in the laundry in the hopes that its mate had already ended up there stuck to something else. And I went downstairs to tell my mother that if only one sock came out of the washing machine, it wasn't her fault. And as I went back through the dark living room, I noticed there was something on the couch, which, when I picked it up, turned out to be the other sock. I have no idea how it got there.

Obviously it was the velveteen rabbit's fault. Um. Yeah.

Comments

[rosnbery.livejournal.com]

Did it also give you scarlet fever?

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

That's like me and my socks, only I find them in various places all over the house because I only wear them when I wear shoes. It's a terrible bad habit and someday I'll have to break it... but it's like, oh, I dunno, find and seek the socks.

[fishy1.livejournal.com]

sock gnomes. Sock Gnomes!

[hydecat.livejournal.com]

Sounds to me like you're the victim of a poltergeist on a Laundry Run (http://www.greyarthur.com/game/).

[belfebe.livejournal.com]

You know? There was a very funny article in Reader's Digest, many, many years ago. I believe the title was "Where do socks go?" It was about several theories on why is it that we can only find one sock when we do laundry. One of the theories is that they go to an alternate dimension.

A lonely sock is truly a mystery that has had scientists baffled since socks were invented.

I will probably stick with the alternate dimension story.

[fishy1.livejournal.com]

there are actually sock-negative and sock-positive washers and driers.

[belfebe.livejournal.com]

See? If you ever find a strange sock in your dryer, it means that someone else is looking for it in al alternate dimension.

Perhaps washers, and particularly dryers, are some sort of mini-black holes?

Oh, the humanity!