What happens to socks?

Question

they keep disappearing - where do they go?

Answer 1

In an imbalanced load, the barrel of the dryer will wobble slightly. Just enough to allow something small, like a sock, to slip over the edge. Open your dryer casing up and reclaim what is lost. Although if it has been there a while you may not want it any more due to dust, lint, spider webs, etc.

Answer 2

I think there is a little energy vortex in the washing machines that suck the socks into a parallel world. Its true you know. Next time you are out, you'll notice socks on the side of the road, or in park, maybe even in the hallway of your school. Those are socks from other worlds that have come HERE to our world. :-)

Answer 3

There is a Hungarian poem/song for children which says the Big Socks-Eater comes during the night and this is why we can't find them by the morning. I'm a 39-year-old mum of 3 and my faith in the Big Socks-Eater is growing every day.

Answer 4

There is no sock monster, there is no energy vortex, there is no washing machine monster nothing like that!

It is the underwear gnomes, they realized there was not as much money in underwear as they originally hoped. So they needed to branch out. Well normally the only thing in the laundry with underwear is socks.

I have been invovlved in trying to get them into other aspects of clothing hijinx, but they are not the brightest bulbs on the tree.

Answer 5

Sock gremlins take them to the Sock Universe, where they float in space, circling the Great Sock Monster, who needs to feed on socks, but only left foot socks.

Answer 6

A discussion on this topic took place on a drunken night whilst on holiday in Greece - we came to the conclusion that they are made into wire coathangers. I will explain:
socks disappear in the washing machine and/or dryer, yes? Well, from there they are gathered together, made into wire coathangers and hung up ready for your clothes in your wardrobe by special little workers who are obviously invisible. No? Well, ok, then, answer this - have YOU ever bought wire coathangers? No? My work here is done :)

Answer 7

Terry Pratchet wrote about a 'sock eating machine' i believe in the Discworld books. This must be my washing machine as there is always an odd one left over. I think they often get stuck at the back, then re-appear a few years later!

Answer 8

There is a drawer in heaven full of single socks crying for their mates. Remember when you die to put all your single socks in the coffin with you so they can go too.

Simple solution, buy only black socks so they all match each other, no single socks afterwards.

Answer 9

3 SCIENTIFIC THEORIES

They go down the drain of the washer, meeting with the alligators in the sewage lines, where they are planning a revolution. We hope they are not breeding. However, there is a group of pacifist alligators that un-knit the socks and re-knit them into sweaters and doilies.

They go off to breed in private

In some way, they incite the coat hangers to breed.


Further research is needed.

Answer 10

There is a sock monster living in your washing machine that eats them and her young nest in your laundry basket or sock drawer and well that's it really unless you believe the alien abduction theory regarding socks