h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When the washing machiene takes its sacrifice, why is it always the left sock?

Why is there no such thing as raw toast?

Where does your lap go when you sit down?

1. I am unable to throw any light on this, but I wash all my smalls in the bath and yet still suffer sock shortages. However, it does not take socks with holes in.

2. There is. It takes some experimentation, due to variabilities in bread and toaster manufacurers, but a point can be reached where the bread has dried and hardend but there is no browning at all.

3. The cat takes it to sleep on elsewhere.

Is there such a thing as a left sock? These questions demand an answer!

It depends on which one you put on first.

But if you put the left one on first you'll have one left...

Yes, there is a difference. When a pair of socks is fresh out of the pack, both socks look identical. After being worn once, each sock will have a slight bulge where the big toe went. The bulge on the left sock is on the right of the sock, and vice versa. My husband won't wear a sock that has been worn on the left on his right foot because it feels wrong (if you see what I mean); I'm the same.

I have enough trouble finding a matching pair in the mornings, let alone worrying about which foot they were last on!

My husband has the same problem with finding matching socks. Thing is, he buys all the socks he wears to work from the same place (Marks& Spencer) and always buys the same colour, charcoal grey. However, there are shade differences between different packs, and older socks have been washed more often and faded slightly. So he still struggles to find socks of an identical shade of grey, plus each sock has to be for a different foot. It can take him ages to get dressed in the morning. I get dressed quicker than he does. (Mind you, women don't have to worry about whether the legs of their tights (pantihose) match!)

I don't know why he bothers. You only really see the socks when he sits down, and most of the time that's at a desk, so you can't see his feet anyway!

I'm so glad I mostly wear shoes which don't require socks!

By the way, the lap doesn't go anywhere when you sit down... it's when you stand up that it disappears! (or is taken by the cat)

I can only assume that your husband allows himself much more time between getting up and having to be out the door than I do.
Given the choice between getting up or grabbing the extra few minutes in bed, then rushing, the bed wins every time!

The only shoes I could wear without socks or tights are sandals, and it's much to cold for most of the year for those. If I go sockless with any other kind of shoes, they either rub or stick to my feet. Both situations are unpleasant.

I don't know how much time you allow yourself, but Richard likes to allow an hour. Of this, 15 minutes plus is spent in the bathroom, half-an-hour is spent getting ready and the rest is spent feeding the cats and making us a cup of tea (unless I've already done it).

Sounds like Richard starts about 59.999 minutes ahead of me!

No in reality its about 30 minutes (I don't have cats to feed and I just about get a cup of tea down my throut before legging it out the door).