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
I have voiced this theory before. It is the **Sock Pixies**. Now hear me out…
Back in the before times, most socks were plain cotton. The Sock Pixies would steal a pair at a time so you would likely not notice and they are good eating. But with the advancement of polymers and plastics getting into everything, now the Sock Pixies have microplastics in the brain and it has sent them wrong, and more than a little bit spiteful.
If they come to your house and find a cotton/polymer blend, they will become enraged, and use their Pixie magic to transform ONE sock into a Tupperware lid that doesn’t fit any of your containers, then slip it into your collection. They then run off cackling into the night.
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