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?
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Allow my five year old kid to illustrate: After he takes a sock off, he throws it. Usually one goes someplace obvious like near the laundry hamper or on the couch or in the middle of the floor. The second sock gets thrown somewhere else entirely like behind the tv, under the fridge, or somehow travels through a vent into the attic I guess. If I’m there to witness it the sock pair is salvageable. If I’m not there and there are no witnesses, one sock is lost forever and one sock becomes an orphan that travels to the wash, is cleaned and dried and tossed in the bag of orphan socks in the closet, where it will spend its days waiting to be outgrown and tossed in the trash.
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