Somewhere within a normal weekend, I sort through my dirty laundry to start my standard three loads of wash for the week. Whites, coloreds, and darks. I find myself doing the usual routine of coloreds first, so I can start the drying process of the “hang-dry” only sweaters, then on to the darks, and lastly the delicates, the unmentionables, the whites. Those take some genteel care.
Somewhere within all three loads of laundry are a multitude of socks. White ones, colored ones, and dark ones. They go into the washer as a pair. Side by side they spin together, dancing the wash waltz through soap and suds. When the cycle ends, they get tossed within a soggy pile of wet mess into the dryer. It’s here where the marriage tumbles. Throw in a bounce or two and what used to be matching pair of argyle socks is now a fight of unraveling yarn.
Sadly, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Socks, the once matching duo of socks is now separated and divorced. Single. Alone.
As I sort and fold together the matching pairs, there is always one lone sock leftover. I doubt there isn’t a weekend that goes by that I don’t lose a cute little toe warmer. And stupid me, I hang on to those single leftovers, with hopes they will partner up again. Surely, the other matching sock will come marching back home. I have a whole drawer of single socks just waiting to get back into dating again. Just waiting to be part of the pair, folded back into productivity and in the proper sock drawer. All they need is a matching mate.
Unless Amore or Dolce get a hold of them. Amore or Dolce are home wreckers (I’m not sure whom is the canine culprit) . Those little bitches are Sock Stealers! That’s what they are.
It’s bad enough to lose a sock from the dryer, but to have Dolce happily be the other woman, stealing away Mr. Robert Sock is too much! Chewing away the fibers of a solid cotton partnership, leaving holes in a marriage of toes and a heel, is beyond me. How dare she!
For Amore to drag the morally-lacking Mr. Sock out to the muddy, snow melting pen into oblivion is to lose all trust in our canine friends. To purposely separate a knee-hi couple, to deliberately come between a smart-wool pair, to destroy a happily knitted toe’n heel matched duo, is, well, unbecoming of our girls.
I thought I had trained them better. Raised them properly. Guided them gently through their middle years. BUT NOOOooooo! They have to go steal socks! And with no remorse. Does she look guilty? Remorseful? Sorry? Nope, not Amore. That is her giving the “what? I don’t see a chewed up, destroyed sock sitting on my pillow right next to me” look. The “I don’t know what you are talking about” look. Notice the non-eye contact, the ignorance of the situation? AND do you notice the huge disconnect of the elephant in the room? A huge hole in the toes. Welcome to my world.
Do you think this happens to Malcolm’s socks. Oh, no, not to him! Come to think of it, I probably wouldn’t give a rats-ass if it was one of his socks. All of his are white and thrown into one big happy orgy of a drawer. He doesn’t sort and fold, he doesn’t match up, he wouldn’t even notice a sock that was newly divorced.
This is a conspiracy!
If It Falls on the Floor 