Alright, Which One of You Scallywags Took My Sock?!?!

[ProudLib72]

rzemanfl, I have my eye on you!

[still_one]

1. If you put it in the dryer, it is your own darn fault

[ProudLib72]

2. I can't guard the dryer for the whole cycle

Besides, it's dark down there in the basement.

[still_one]

5. Those are the rules. Bring your teddy bear next time

[ProudLib72]

8. Jesus, the last time I brought Fredrick, he lost an eye battling the mice

Whoever came up with these rules must have a posh laundry setup!

[still_one]

12. +++++++++++++++++++

[blueinredohio]

30. I thought washers ate socks.

[still_one]

31. I think it depends on the model

[2naSalit]

3. The red one or

the pink one? Either way, I'm not tellin'.

[ProudLib72]

4. It WAS white!

Now what have you done to my poor sock?

[2naSalit]

6. I dunno anything

and I didn't see how it got pink anyway. I think maybe something we don't want to talk about was going on in the rinse cycle.

[ProudLib72]

9. Next time, you tell Margaret to keep her unmentionables out of my load!

Pink! The horror!

[TexasTowelie]

27. Oddly enough

I ran across an article last night that discussed on the closing day of the Legislature there is a tradition of wearing pink socks. I think that It was in Missouri.

[Control-Z]

7. I gave it to Dobby.

What are you going to say about that? Careful now.

[ProudLib72]

10. Alas, I am a mere muggle and have no recourse

Did he tell you why he needed it?

[Control-Z]

11. Yes, he did.

But I can't share that with you. It was (is?) his story to tell. Are you worthy? Only Dobby can say. He'll find a way to contact you, if you are.

[2naSalit]

13. He'll be easy to spot

with that pink sock!

[Control-Z]

14. Indeed!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. I once asked My Son the Astronomer

why we lose socks in the dryer but metal hangers seem to multiply in the closet.

He told me (with a perfectly straight face) that it's because socks are the larval form of hangers.

[Harker]

16. Was it your "special" sock? n/t

[ProudLib72]

19. Yes, extra starchy!

[FakeNoose]

17. Suggestion: before you wash your socks

... clip them together with little plastic clothespins. They'll come out of the dryer already matched up.
Now where did I put my clothespins?

[ProudLib72]

20. Seems like that would make a terrible racket in the dryer

Bang, bang, kerplink, pop, zzzzzzing, etc..

[Major Nikon]

18. ...

[smirkymonkey]

21. Could have been Gnomes.

Usually they only take underwear, but every once in a while they will go for socks.

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[ProudLib72]

22. I searched all day today

At this point I'm giving up. I googled around and found out about this thing known as "dryer attrition", where a certain percentage of socks just end up as lint in the screen.

[Harker]

23. That's a project...

fashioning a sock from dryer lint.

[ProudLib72]

24. Question: Why is dryer lint alway grey?

It could be various shades of grey, but it's still grey. Why not hearing aid beige once in awhile to reduce the monotony?

[Harker]

25. I've had the occasional maroon batch

but yep - grey is is the usual. I suppose if you only dried your surviving white sock you might get pale lint.

[rzemanfl]

26. I never take socks out of season. It is 83 degrees here today. n/t

[rzemanfl]

28. Wait! I know. A Republican took it to roll up and put in his underwear.

[ariadne0614]

29. I may have seen that very creature lurking under a bridge!

It did have a vague Republican appearance. I didn’t stick around long enough to be sure.

[ProudLib72]

33. I'm assuming in the back.

There is a joke about that, but I forgot how it goes. Something about a guy who asks his friend how to pick up women. The friend tells him about putting a sock in his pants. Next time they meet, he tells his friend that all the women ran away. Turns out he put the sock in the back instead of the front.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

32. ...

[applegrove]

34. CBC radio had a contest way back to see who could best explain missing socks

In dryer loads. The winner was: you did not lose a sock. The lint just got all together and created a new one.