MISSING-Last Seen Entering Dryer 12/12/12
September 28, 2023 10:28
Ten years ago, on this site, this phenomenon had been rated OSFA, One-size-fits-all, by the International Knee-Sport-and-Leisure-Sock Association of Planetearth. Otherwise known as IKSLAP. In the public’s interest, I’ve decided to repost and promise to follow thru with the initiative I’ve set forth a decade ago.
Have you seen this sock today?
MISSING-Last Seen Entering Dryer 12/12/12
After half a century of sitting on their hands, many members of CADS, the Center for the Abnormal Dematerialization of Socks, still refuse to accept that the daily disappearance of an inordinate number of the world’s socks is a problem of epic proportion. The fact that a Small Society of Leading Scientists (SSoLS) has been working 24/7 for decades in search of an answer to this dilemma doesn’t seem to faze CADS in the least.
CADS claims that worm-holes, black-holes, even rabbit-holes have only been suggested as the notorious sock-napping culprits. CADS wants proof. They want witnesses that can attest to the fact that our loyal foot-warmers have not left home willingly, especially in the case of frayed and holey socks. CADS does not dispute however, the perilous journey our socks must undertake from odiferous foot, to washing machine, and back to the fragrant residence in our bureau drawers.
In their words,
“The only way to be 100% sure of keeping your soles matched is to
HAND WASH ONLY.”
I don’t know about you, but that’s not gonna happen here!
Obviously, the specialists haven’t consulted me on the matter.
I know my dryer is the culprit.
Doesn’t he look guilty?
I am CADS’ witness.
I have seen it happen.
And I’ll cry it from the wash-load tops.
– The happy couples prior to being washed –
My dryer is a spinning, spiraling vortex into another world
– one fraught with strange, phobic, single-sock wearing creatures –
actual beasts that are unaware of the chaos they are creating in my world when they decide to hold one of my precious sole mates captive. I would almost rather that they kept the pair. Then at least it wouldn’t leave the sole survivor abandoned, lost, and alone in this world.
Oh, where, oh, where has my other sock gone?
I once heard a Lakota medicine man say,
“We are the same. We are different.
We are all an integral part of life.
We are life—
Some of us are red, some are black, some are white, some are yellow.”
A socking similarity, right?
Now that many of my socks have moved on to a land where perhaps,
the shoe is on the other foot,
I have decided to keep my mismatched socks. They get along well together.
I promise to wear them in celebration of how we too, you and I, are the same. And I honor the fact that we are also different.
In support of
WE ARE THE SAME – WE ARE DIFFERENT,
Won’t you join me and occasionally wear your single socks?
Please, pretty please, share your photos too!
I’ll post them on the first Sunday of the month.
Reference Single Socks in the Subject box to dgweidner [at] gmail [dot] com
As always, dear Reader, thank you for stopping by today.
❤ Be well ❤
Posted by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner
Categories: ADVENTURES, ANCIENT WISDOM and TEACHINGS, HUMOR, PONDERINGS, SINGLE SOCK SUNDAY, VIEW FROM MY SOAP BOX
Tags: adventure, Donna Lambo-Weidner, Single Sock Day, Single Sock Sunday, single socks, we are the same-we are different
Mobile Site | Full Site
Get a free blog at WordPress.com Theme: WordPress Mobile Edition by Alex King.
You forgot to mention aliens stealing the socks to mess with our OCD minds-lol!
LikeLike
By Anonymous on September 28, 2023 at 12:10
That’s an exploration for another day 🙂 Thanks for mentioning it!
LikeLike
By Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner on September 28, 2023 at 18:15
Still love this!!!! One of my favorites!
LikeLike
By Anonymous on September 28, 2023 at 19:05
Thank you!
LikeLike
By Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner on September 29, 2023 at 09:17
Marvellous fun, Donna
LikeLike
By derrickjknight on September 29, 2023 at 02:39
Thank you, Derrick. Will you be partaking in the challenge? 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
By Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner on September 29, 2023 at 09:19
I’m afraid I don’t wear socks at all from May to October when I wear sandals – and this year it is still very mild here 🙂
LikeLike
By derrickjknight on September 29, 2023 at 09:48
Well, there is always November- April 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
By Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner on September 29, 2023 at 10:25
Wonderful look into the world of missing socks!
LikeLike
By Pam Jones-Nill on September 29, 2023 at 09:32
Thank you Pam. Do you have a few to share?
LikeLike
By Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner on September 29, 2023 at 10:24
Very funny – and just so true!
I use odd socks to protect glasses while travelling in our overlander.
LikeLike
By Jacqueline Lambert @WorldWideWalkies on September 30, 2023 at 01:45
That a great idea!
LikeLiked by 1 person
By Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner on September 30, 2023 at 15:28
Ha!
LikeLike
By sandranickel on October 2, 2023 at 02:07
🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
By Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner on October 3, 2023 at 09:40
A wonderful exposition of a universal problem. And since I missed the original, I greatly appreciate the retelling.
LikeLiked by 1 person
By Anonymous on October 2, 2023 at 08:35
Thank you 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
By Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner on October 3, 2023 at 09:40