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

The last few days I have been mildly disabled with a bad case of sun burn, and have more time than is safe on my hands. I got to thinking about the missing sock mystery.

I believe I may have found out what is happening to them. A simple answer would be they never made it into the washer. I imagined bunches of socks massed under the bed in mortal terror. But that was to ordinary. Another idea was a combination of heat and static build up in the dryer developed into an energy vortex that either destroyed them or hurled them into a parallel universe. But that explanation was too Star Trekkish.

I believe they have travelled to another dimention but they went of their own free will. After an exhaustive and meticulous studies of the dryer and the entire house, I found no signs of vortexs or any other odd occurences, well there were some odd things, but that is for another time.

So my conculsion is the socks make thier way to a world of thier own. A world where they can live a sock oriented life. And by a strange twist of fate, it is one planet out from they legendary planet of ball point pens. And to be honest finding a planet of ball point pens would be nice, but a planet full of socks of questionable cleanliness is probably left to itself.