but seriously, how do people lose one sock in the laundry?

Question

We’ve all had this occur multiple times in our lives: we do the laundry, one sock from the pair goes missing. We check the washer and the dryer, it’s nowhere to be found. It happens often enough to be a running cultural, universal joke. But it makes no sense. How does it happen?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

It is a scientific fact that Socks are the larval stage of clothing hangers. The go through metamorphosis due to the heat in the dryer. That’s where all the extra wire hangers come from.