Why does one sock always vanish in the dryer?

Answer 1

They travel thru a portal and metamorphasise into wire coat hangers., for proof throw one wire hanger in a closet and wait a few days when you come back there will be a few more, leave them long enough and the closet will become overrun with them.

Answer 2

There is a Hell and a Purgatory for socks, and the dryer is St. Peter's Sock Gate.

If a sock was only a bit nasty on the days when its ex comes over for a visit and poops on it, chances are, it will go to Sock Purgatory and eventually wind up back in your dryer when it has repented and purged its sole if its terrible burden.

Sometimes socks lead very good lives and go to Heaven. In this case, you didn't ever have a sock vanish. You just had one appear spontaneously. Keep these socks under your pillow and ye will be blessed with good foot health and hygiene as ye sleep.

And some of those darned socks are just plain snitches and they wind up in the Federal Witness Relocation Program, doomed to a life sentence in a ranch house at the end of a cul-de-sac in the midwest.

But then, I may be just blaming it on all that because I have a slight foot fetish. I've already done your pink one. I'm saving the rainbow toe one until my birthday. But your sheer black nylon footsie is an unrepentent little tramp and I love her so. I tried to get a haberdasher to wed us, but she's Jewish and neither of us is willing to convert.

Answer 3

This has always boggled me, I think it's pretty suss.
It's Worldwide!! This is happening everywhere!!
There is always one or two in the dryer with no partner.
These lonely socks are put somewhere till the other sock
"turns up"
If hardly ever does.
And If it does,you have always misplaced the original non missing sock. And so they both become missing. They sometimes surface, never in the same wash. They both become indistinguishable from each other.
Lost in Laundry Ether. It's all rather sad.

A sometimes solution is a odd socks box in the cupboard.
If you find a lonley sock, put it in the box. After a few months of doing this when you wash, The lonley socks should be sorted out and in all likelyhood, their partners' will be in the box.

It's doesn't always work though

Answer 4

Socks get lost coming from the dryer becuase they either stick to the top of the inside of the dryer or they fall to the floor as they're being moved out of the dryer.

Answer 5

It's not the dryer's fault. The sock gets lost in the chaos of the plethora of clothing all bunched and tumbled, and because it's so small, you dont notice when it falls out of the group into a nook, crannie, or the space between the dryer and the wall. Poor sock.

Answer 6

Red Wasp Sock Puppet Ninjas

Answer 7

Actually, the sock gets eaten by the washer. If it's still there when you put the load in the dryer, it is stuck to the inside of the dryer via static electricity.

Answer 8

Gnomes somehow get into the dryer when the cycles are done.. Then take a sock of their choosing ,I'm not sure what their bidding for the sock is yet .

Answer 9

I've never lost a sock in the dryer, but I know a girl who lost her virginity on a dryer.

Answer 10

The spinning of the dryer opens a vortex into a parallel universe which then absorbs one sock from each pair.

Answer 11

They don't really vanish. The sock monster sneaks out from his hiding place and steals them. He only ever steals one sock from each pair as he likes variety. You just have to track down where the monster is hiding in the house and you will find all the socks!