In Search of the Sock Monster

What Other Explanation is There for Those Missing Socks?

Let's face it, we've all been there. Standing around the dryer and pulling the socks out of it and suddenly noticing that one sock isn't a pair.

Suddenly you find yourself swearing you put the other sock in the wash with it and you will probably end up spending a good hour looking for that other sock and more then likely you will never see it again. It is an annoyance to suddenly find your socks piling up on top of the dryer because, hopefully, someday you might be able to reunite the lonely socks with their mate. But this brings up the age old childhood question: Is there really a Sock Monster?

Little is known about the appearance of the Sock Monster because no one has had a chance to catch a glimpse of him yet. Some say he is a hideous 7 foot tall monster, some say he crawls around on the floor with all the missing socks attached to him. But maybe our closest idea of what he looks like comes from The Urban Dictionary which defines the Sock Monster as being:

Found in (or around) washing machines and tumble dryers. Thought to be a genetically modified, highly evolved organism. Although never actually sighted evidence points to its habits and breeding cycle. A voracious predator the Sock Monster preys on single socks always leaving behind one of the pair it has captured. Mystery surrounds this behavior although zoologists surmise this may be an instinctual mechanism for long term survival. Able to cross great distances at speed and unseen there is almost no known method of defense against the dreaded Sock Monster.

But it also leaves the question: Where do missing socks go? Pairs go in the wash, but only one gets back to your dresser. It seems no matter how hard you try to search for the missing socks you just can't come up with an answer for where it went to. I have this problem right now with 7 different socks. Hello Mr. Sock Monster, I would like my socks back again!

And it's never the socks you could care less about loosing, it always has to be the socks you love and took the time to break in and make your own.