Monday, April 17, 2006

I Found Your Missing Sock

Last night, while folding laundry, I came across a sock which does not belong to anyone in my family. How can this happen? I pondered these things in my heart. I thought perhaps I had solved the age-old riddle: where do single socks go when they disappear? Perhaps they are teleported from your dryer to mine. This is not the first time a random sock has appeared in my house. [Cue ominous music.]

Teleportation. That must be it. Mystery solved.

Until this morning, when I found this. The matching sock. Which I never purchased. This pair of socks is a obviously a set of intruders, interlopers, maybe even spies. But from whence did they come?

I cannot comment further due to the ongoing investigation.

Reporting live from Washington State, this is Mel, Queen of Socks, signing out.

18 Comments:

Blogger Oberon said...

......hey.....that's my sock....i wondered where it went.

10:00 AM  
Blogger Rachelle said...

It looks like some of my sons socks, just bigger. How is it socks disappear and migrate? I think it is all part of a greater sock conspiracy.

10:26 AM  
Blogger ... Paige said...

OH My God, that belongs to my beloved. Hey why is it teleporting to you?
I save the "found" socks & some day they will have a partner & I will never never have to buy socks again!

as long as I don't mind mind wearing 2 different kinds of sox-say a pink one and one like your picture

10:51 AM  
Blogger Robin said...

Haha!! I bet they belong to the infamous "Not Me" who leaves crumbs on the counter and never flushes the toilet.

11:15 AM  
Blogger Judy said...

It's not my sock.

The bottom is TOO white.

11:41 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, I was going to say the sock belongs to my husband, but then you found the other one so I know it can't be true. Every time we do laundry, my husband ends up with 7 to 9 single socks and we HAVE NO IDEA where the mates have gone to.
I keep threatening to just throw all his socks away and buy him 40 pairs of socks that are EXACTLY THE SAME.

11:54 AM  
Blogger methatiam said...

Strange, socks don?t usually mate for life.

For one to follow another through the void that connects all dryers is usual to say the least.

12:07 PM  
Blogger oshee said...

Each of my children have one style of socks. (except the 8 yr old boy who needs that pair of black socks for church) When a pair of socks turns up that doesn't belong. It usually belongs to a cousin who visited recently. I applaud you for finding both socks. Turns it into a real mystery.

12:07 PM  
Blogger Anvilcloud said...

I pondered these things in my heart.

Careful there. You're treading dangerously close to holy ground.

12:42 PM  
Blogger Leslee said...

That looks like my husband's socks. Thanks for washing them for me!

1:11 PM  
Blogger Shalee said...

They're mine. I put them on when I thought about jogging, but I took them off when I wound up blogging. Since they rhyme, can that count towards exercise?

1:33 PM  
Blogger ~Jennifer said...

I was going to say, "Now, that's just weird," but then I remembered that you have teenaged boys. Start your investigation there. ;-)

3:57 PM  
Blogger Suzanne said...

I am so glad Mel now has a working digital camera. We are being treated to such a greater insight into her life. From kids to socks, the visual aids add to the pictures her words paint.

Things like mismatched socks are never a problem until you fold the laundry. Yet another reason to put off that chore?

Suzanne

7:07 PM  
Blogger Diane Viere said...

OMG! Too funny! Too bad the rest of my laundry didn't make it through the teleport process....someone really needs to finish my laundry!

Diane

8:37 PM  
Blogger that girl said...

hahaha! that's awesome! i had a mystery red flannel sheet and blue cotton pillowcase appear in my laundry last week...

doo-doo-do-do doo-doo-do-do...

8:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I used to believe in the mysterious void that connects all dryers, but now I live in a hot country and I don't have a dryer and STILL the socks go missing and turn up mysteriously.
I suppose it is things like this that give life meaning...

10:51 AM  
Blogger M3 said...

Ah ha!!!!! So you've got them. We've got a box of sad single socks in the laundry room. I just went and looked and there are 26 socks in there. (????)

9:18 PM  
Blogger owlhaven said...

Usually when this happens to me it is a friend's socks from a sleepover...

Mary

10:01 PM  

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