Yup, socks! you really don’t need to know, but I’m gonna tell you anyway!
Everyone knows that every once in a while a sock escapes to the heaven specially made for socks. So, for years we’ve tried to get around the “odd sock” problem by buying identical black sock in batches of a couple of dozen at a time. The theory being: if one sock escapes we’ll have an odd sock (or half a pair), but if another sock goes then we’ll just have one less pair, since identical socks don’t care who they’re paired with.
Nice theory, in practice though the damn things fade at different rates so after a while instead of 11 pairs of black socks you end up with 2 pairs of identical socks and 9 pairs of not quite matched socks. Bummer.
This year we’re trying a different strategy, we’re going with the buddy system. We’re buying Polka dots, stripes, zig-zags, you name it. We are NOT going to end up with poorly matched pairs. Every sock will know its buddy, and every pair will know its place.
Under the buddy system each pair will to plan their escape together, and disappear from the washing machine as a single well coordinated unit.
Result: no more odd socks! And a Nobel Prize for me and my girlfriend.
One more reason I’m not an officer in my guild.
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