Jan 29 2006
The sock mystery
Dozens of single socks have vanished without leaving a trace! It's a mystery! Look at all the singles in the picture. None of them have a matching sock. Where have all the socks gone? That's the question we're pondering at present. You might have encountered the same puzzling mishap.
Over the past eight years or so, we've had a sock-divorcees' basket that has sadly, yet steadily been piling up. This baffling phenomenon does have an explanation, but we haven't succeeded in resolving the dilemma yet.
One possible explanation: The cat.
When Emmi, the cat, is hungry she opens the door to the wardrobe and carries socks into the livingroom where she drops them on the floor miaowing for food. Who knows, she might have hidden a great number of socks in places we don't know.
Two other possible suspects are the new washing machine and tumbler dryer. Who knows, perhaps socks are simply sucked in by the drum and dissapear.
One would perhaps think that a poor laundry system is to be blamed. The obvious scenario is where one sock is in the laundry while the other is in the drawer nice and clean. This, in turn, becomes a sustained vicious sircle because whenevere the kids run out of socks, they put on two that don't match. Here I must disappoint you, because this is not the case. We know, because we have checked.
Actually, I've run out of explanations and plead for your help in this matter of great importance.
Comments
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Posted by gryon February 2, 2006 3:08 PM
Halloisen!
Er det ikke merkelig at vi har akkurat det samme mysteriet hjemme hos oss? Hvor mange single sokker har dere? Jeg skal gå hjem og telle. Dette er ille!
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Posted by Winnie C. Stavdalon February 2, 2006 10:29 PM
Hmmm...
Jeg forstår virkelig ikke hva dere snakker om... Sokker som forsvinner? Det har jeg aldri opplevd. Kanskje de har fått bein å gå på?
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Posted by Anuon February 3, 2006 8:42 AM
-Gry-
Det er 75 (!!) per i dag...
Anu
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Posted by Runeon February 3, 2006 9:55 AM
Anu, er det sååå mange! Og det etter at vi har kasta ganske mange enslige...hmmmpf
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Posted by Thoron February 11, 2006 10:55 PM
Ehhh, Rune..!!??
Dere skulle vel ikke tilfeldigvis ha kastet omtrent 75??
Thor
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Posted by Rune Son February 11, 2006 11:07 PM
Thor, så koselig at du har vært innom sida! Hils masse til fam! Ang. sokkene, ja så kan det hende at de har gått i støvsugeren for alt jeg vet. Det hender nemlig tidt og ofte at vi hører et swoshp fra under sofaen...
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Posted by Winnieon March 4, 2006 1:30 PM
Ok, I've been living with the Stavdals for a month now, and after using their washing machine once, one of my socks is gone... Very strange indeed. However I am determined to find it. In that way I might solve the whole sock mystery!
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Posted by Winnieon March 4, 2006 1:36 PM
I apologise for being so arrogant and unempathic about the sock mystery; something expressed in my very first comment on the subject... My eyes were opened when I actually started washing my socks...ehr....
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Posted by Karen Olsenon March 22, 2006 8:42 AM
Ja, det var nå helt utrolig at det ikke bare er MEG som opplever det sokkemysteriet... :) Er akkurat som penner også - forsvinner i løse lufta! Fin hjemmeside forresten!
Hils til Winnie:)
Hilsen Karen
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Posted by Martinon March 24, 2006 4:55 PM
Hallo Rune og gjengen. Jeg har løst sokkmysteriet!! det er vell ikke mulig at 75sokker plutselig flyr inn i støvsugeren, så det må være at hele familen spiser sokkene i søvne.
Grunn til at bare en sokk forsvinner fra hvert par: Det er tydeligvis pga. at det skal bli et mysterie.
(P.S ingen grunn til å takke for at jeg løste mysteriet)
Hello:)
I know, it's a mystery where the other socks went... but that's just one of life's mysteries.
And just to congratulate you with the baby on the way!! Do you think it's going to be a girl or a boy?
But now, when do you think your house is going to be ready?
From a student of yours:)