I have come to the conclusion, that my teenage son`s must eat one of their socks while asleep.

I have so many odd socks from their room. They come in get changed go to bed, get up and then when I go in I can only find one sock.

Can anyone tell me what happens to the other one. It drives me nuts.

:o they are obviously hording the single socks, making them into pairs and selling them on the black market to support that nafarious deeds of Al Queda!!!

Sorry I think I much have been watching too much 'reliable and ballanced' programming recently!

Check his underpants and if they're not there check his eyebrows:

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check to see if he has any odd girls socks hidden under his matress,

if he has, its time to worry. lol

my mum once found some girls underwear in my room at that age-
i insisted i didnt know where they had come from

I have found much more than that under the bed.

But can`t find the socks.

lol

maybe the sock fairy has taken them

my missus WISHES my socks would go missing

maybe they have walked out for a new lease of life??????????

Rosie I found your missing socks :thumbsup:

They where in my hubbies spare sock drawer :o

I am so glad as there are 63 odd socks in my cupboard.

My son`s will be pleased as they will have to wear socks they have not seen for years.

Hey don't knock it.
It saves on the washing.

That does not happen, they just send me shopping for more, and that`s time consuming.

I even had to send socks to Iraq, as they were eaten by little insects and he came home with odd socks for me.

How sad is that.

Look inside duvet covers.

Buy socks in packs of 10 of the same. That way, you won't have an odd sock until you've lost 19 socks. Doesn't solve the problem just puts the day off.

I would but my son`s dont like the same socks and one especially likes named socks.

He is 19 though and is getting better.

They end up having an argument over socks. They must be able to tell them apart by the smell.

Quantum physics says that things can exist in 2 different places at the same time. Your socks will come back but the ones you have accounted for could slip into a different universe at the same time, so you would not notice.

Originally posted by OneofThree
Quantum physics says that things can exist in 2 different places at the same time.

THen why can't a single sock exist on the left foot, and also on the right foot at the same time?

Imagine the possibilities! Youd save a fortune, and you could never lose just a single sock, you'd always lose both

I think i'm onto a money making scheme there

Wilf

Originally posted by rosie
I would but my son`s dont like the same socks and one especially likes named socks.

He is 19 though and is getting better.

They end up having an argument over socks. They must be able to tell them apart by the smell.

Perhaps since he is 19 he could shop for and wash his own socks and might then have more sympathy for your frustration and might even change his late night snacking habits from socks to kebabs (generally a more popular choice amongst 19 year old boys).

Just thinking this through. can you actually have a left and a right sock, are they marked so you know which is which?

A woman on a bus once told me that it's a scientifically proven fact ; if you put two socks in a washing machine, only one ever comes out. So it must be right.

my thinking on this subject is there are such things as sock rats that come out while you are asleep and nick the bl**y things

I'm sure I can think of something that a growing red-blooded teenage boy could be doing with his one sock and also a reason for hiding aforesaid sock from his mum the following morning. :suspect:

rosie, collect all the odd socks, unpick them, then knit me a willy warmer, its getting nippy out there...b good xxx

I'm sure I can think of something that a growing red-blooded teenage boy could be doing with his one sock and also a reason for hiding aforesaid sock from his mum the following morning. :suspect:
yes not wanting to be rude but you should put a box off tissues in his room there easer to flush than socks :blush:

there is evil at work in my home,I wash only one sock from each person, yet I have an Ironing pile the size of a small african village............

Ive never lost so may socks(in the wash) as I have done lately.I could scream when pairing them up , afterwards to find one single solitary sock, on its own.Im thinking "Wheres the other one ? I must find it" Every single time its in the dirty washing,and hasnt even been washed yet.I just forgot to put it in the machine. Then the clean sock is stuck in the drawers for ages,waiting to be paired up with the other one. :rant:

have a socks reunited drawer like i do, either that or throw them away, or make them into sock puppets,Primark is my saviour, 2000 pairs of black sox for 2p.....

A woman on a bus once told me that it's a scientifically proven fact ; if you put two socks in a washing machine, only one ever comes out. So it must be right.
Cloudybay has found the clue!

I've long suspected that the dastardly sock manufacturers have perfected Water-Soluble-Socks! ... Totally indistinguishable from the other normal, hard-wearing sock of the pair... That would certainly increase sales and also explain a great mystery, don't you think?

THen why can't a single sock exist on the left foot, and also on the right foot at the same time?

It can. It's just very unlikely.


"Very unlikely" meaning that you've got less chance of seeing this happening, than of predicting all six lottery numbers, plus the bonus ball, in the correct order they come out of the machine, every Wednesday and Saturday for fifty years straight.

It is, however, theoretically possible. It just won't happen.