i am convinced that the maytag guy and the sock and underwear company are in conspiracy together. let me explain, you know when you put 2 socks in the dryer when its done you only have 1 sock, my theory is, that there is a little compartment in the dryer that opens when its drying and captures your socks and favorite underwear, and even your money, sure a few quarters doesnt sound like a lot but loose 2 quarters a week for months and you loose quite a bit of money. and when you loose socks you go out and buy more, especially if they are those cute socks that cost like $5 a pair. now that gets kinda expensive. when your dryer "breaks" the guy comes and opens up that little secret compartment and takes everything out and hides it in his bag or something, probably keeps all your change plus what you give him to fix the damn thing those bastards. if you stand around and watch then they say its a bigger "problem" and they have to take it back to the factory or whatever to "fix" it. so they charge you more keep your socks and change and whatnot. im thinking about taking my dryer apart to find it.... but my parents would kill me... so me thinks im gonna take a trip to a department store where they sell dryers and take one apart there.... hmmmm let you know what happens when i do....

Red knows thw score.
Where does that one sock go?

Its gotta be true, too. I know that happens to me all of the time.

its still hosiery so I think it counts:

I go out in a brand spanking new pair of thick black tights, do nothing particularly 'energetic' during the day and come back home to find a massive hole in the crotch.
how?!
they aren't too small and I dont sit on anything that would rip them..
strange

I used to belive in the dryer gremlin, the one who steals one of your socks from each pair, until I discovered it was my g/f throwing them out because: a)She thought they looked like shit, or: b)they had holes in them and should be replaced. For a time I thought that the mystery was solved until my perfectly good socks would disappear(the ones Jess bought me). After a little investigation I found that what was happening was that the socks were somehow working their way into the leg of my jeans and other trousers and shorts as the dryer was in action, then when I would take everything out I would think the sock was stolen when it was in the jeans leg. The sock usually fell out while I was hanging them up, which of course I did not notice and later I would find the solitary sock and think it wasn't the missing half of the pair from which one sock had been 'disappeared', that it in fact was the remaining sock from a completely new pair from which one had been 'disappeared', not the two halves of one pair.

IT'S KNOMES I TELL YOU! KNOMES!!!!!!!!! them and the sock companies. the damn knomes steal the socks and then when you run too low, you have to buy more. for who. THE SOCK COMPANIES!! then when your practically broke from all the sock replacements, the little shits split the money. bastards.

no! Its the little guy who lives in the fridge who turns the light on and off! He now has expanded to the washing machine!

*smiles*
the one night my tights dont rip

happens to me too... weird..

maybe the washing machines spin so fast that a quantum portal is torn open.. and a sock falls in.

Highly unlikely.

Heh, It's the ghosties in your house wearing them when your not home!!!

Although I do favor Garg's idea on the socks and quantum portals!!! That whole wormhole theory!!

It's the work of the underpants gnomes

The socks, the quarters, even the lighters that i lose in the wash, that i can understand. But what i want to figure out is were the hell my T-SHIRTS GO?!?!?!?! i mean, that's gotta throw a damper on the whole secret compartment theory out of whack, cuz i mean that would have to be a huge ass compartment, i'm a big guy, those are big shirts!!

Hmm, have you looked into that compartment? it is actually an alternate dimension. So it doesn't appear that big in this one..

*chuckles* I vote for that! Or it could be off on an adventure ala sock and conche shell- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All.

Yeah? why does the hole in your brand new tights always appear in your crotch????
I've had dozens of pairs, and the hole only ever appears in the crotch area-how wierds that!

buy better stockings? or put them in a net bag before washing/drying