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Originally Posted by mplafleur
As an example, tape measures, utility knives, and screwdrivers are herding animals. They get together on me and herd someplace. Every once in a while I find them all. Where you find one, you'll find the rest. Sometimes I buy another when I can't find the herd. Eventually somehow the new guy will disapear, finding the herd by themselves while I can't.
Socks on the other hand are not herding animals. They want to be alone and if they get a chance they wander away from each other. Some never to be found again.
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not to stray from the thread but, why do socks disappear? Someone once told me the agitator eats them- is this true? I had to stop doing men's laundry because of the dreaded "Sock Curse."