sure you haven't dropped one , dry or damp,  down the side..?  or removing them from the machine to the basket.  I myself end up with odd socks.. there is no denying...  and it has had me mystified in the past.  Altho I don't count them.

I tend to find the other 'odd'  sock sooner or later..  odd socks do keep showing up..covered in dust bunnies.

  I think I'm almost at evens at the mo.. but it is a rare occurrence.

and then there is the case of the disappearing clotheshangers.. !!

Sorry that's an oldie.    Someone even wrote a short story about it.!! Can't remember now who. 


See..?/  these are universal issues.. not just a womens.
I'm sure there are plenty of blokes out there with odd socks.!!!!!

I think you might be right there Emma. This bloke even wrote a poem about his plight with missing socks.


Missing Socks

The mysteries of the universe
are many, I am told
But the greatest secret unresolved
eludes me as I fold

The clothes each day, which I removed
and in my hamper tossed
along with seven pair of socks
but now just one is lost

And as I carefully peruse
my sock drawer now and then
it isn't just a sock or two
I'm missing nearly ten

Then on some dim lit morning
when I awake and dress
I put on a mis-matched pair
quite visually confessed

For everyone can plainly see
mis-matched brown and blue
but I just laugh as I reply'
"I've a red and green pair too"

But now I pose this question
I've pondered times before
"Where do those missing socks end up
that were first dropped to the floor?"

They went into the hamper
In pairs while I could see
then in the washer had no route
of escape from me

Then to the dryer laundry passes
as I double check for strays
but as the drying cycle ends
I both eyebrows raise

For as I empty out the load
just thirteen socks I count
an odd, unlucky number
as my suspicions mount

I double check the washer
the dryer and the drawer
beneath the bed, though all the clothes
and all along the floor

But, alas, it is not to be
found among the few
neatly folded articles
of clothing so I ask you

"Where in the nether regions
of laundry do socks go?"
Don't ask the greatest scholars
for they don't even know

But if you wish to have revealed
the distance to the sun
or the ocean's greatest depth
or how many feathers in a ton

Or the specific gravity
in some mass of rocks
Science has all those answers
but not of missing socks

-Steve Hodgin

I know if I were a mother I would be in despair if my daughter walked around half naked.
I admit to being unhappy when I go to town and see so many young girls, pre-teen and upwards, in very public places,  with their fat bellies and skimpy clothes, their apparent lack of awareness as to how gross they actually are.

I admit I have some angst about this, because it so clearly demonstrates just how feckless and moronic their parents are. 
Sadly we have a 2nd wave of feral children...  the product of the first real generation of ferals we have produced in this best of all worlds.  You see them everywhere..  and it is sad.  For them , and for us.

The extent to which the society  WE all live in  has degenerated is indeed worrisome. 
Education doesn't reach these people, and our government represents the worst possible example of self-interest and denial of responsibility.

We have lower levels overall of enlightened reasoning humanity as a result.

What govt policy recently has actually benefited the needy.?

Listen to Pyne or Morrison.. possible PM's ?????????  Goodness me,, how far have we strayed from the true path.!!!

Emma wrote on May 5^th, 2015 at 1:08am:


You have a lot of guts IMO.

You're not afraid to say what many of us think.

... wrote on May 5^th, 2015 at 9:44am:


Not misogyny - sexism. Fat boys walking around in skimpy clothing are just as grotesque.

I'd say it's more fatscist.

perhaps I should have added daughter / son.
But as I have neither, I AM looking at women and females generally.

I find these huge young men in their gear, munching on McDonalds, equally disturbing and when you see these families you'll notice that the parents are just the same. 

This is the legacy we have created,, and frankly I can't see this turning around.

I remember when it was pretty unusual for young folk, including children, to die of cancer.

Look at us now.
We may end up, in 20 yrs or so, with a big gap in our demographics, as all these young people succumb to their lifestyle.

Perhaps when it finally sinks in that children are dying from old peoples diseases....   we may reconsider.



BUT

as thats happening now, and nothing is done to rein-in this culture of fat ..fat food, fat people .. fat profits for multi-nats..
  I DOUBT IT. 

Emma wrote on May 2^nd, 2015 at 10:16pm:
fantastic. We should be grateful.