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THE NICKING OF SOCKS
By MattHews
18 August 2008
I put two in
And one comes out!
What's it all about?
It happens almost every day
I've heard so many people say.

Is there a ghost in the washing machine
What nicks our socks when they are clean?
It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen -
But, really, believe me it's very true,
And I'm sure it also happens to you.























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All the bloody time!
Written by Brett (1113 comments posted) 18th August 2008
I'm beginning to think that the packets of socks I buy actually contain an odd number! 
Cheers
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Written by Katanga (1698 comments posted) 18th August 2008
A very common phenomenon in my experience! 
 
Very well put in your piece above! 
 
It used to happen a lot to me at launderettes, much to my mystification, when I used 'service washes.' 
 
There was a perfectly rational explanation, as I discovered when I got chummy with one of the operatives. 
 
It was /still is a common money-making scam . . . 
 
Not to sell the socks, but to dry two customers' washing in a single shared drum (pocketing one drying fee). 
 
Then they made mistakes when sorting out the two separate loads later! 
 
Oh, that takes me back . . .  
 
Good poem! 
 
Cheers! 
 
John 

Written by Veronica_Milvus (794 comments posted) 18th August 2008
It never happened to me until my husband moved in. Funny, that. We have a drawer in our bedroom called "death row" where the odd socks await their fate.

Written by mia_ms_kim (1057 comments posted) 18th August 2008
I, too, collect odd socks in a separate drawer in case their matching sock turns up. I found two under the old washing machine when I got rid of it, and a couple more in the garden. 
 
Mia :grin
The Washing . . .
Written by Katanga (1698 comments posted) 18th August 2008
. . . Line of Love. 
 
How easily socks drop off! 
 
And one is left with a pair of Victorian bloomers . . . 
 
Ah, I feel something coming on . . . 
 
Waaaaaah! 
 
John X
Socks
Written by MattHews (45 comments posted) 19th August 2008
Thanks, fellow sufferers! My personal opinion is that there's a Charity Shop in The Great Hereafter where they stock not only socks but all manner of items, such as specs., watches, corkscrews, first-novel drafts and half-eaten apples

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