Sixteen year old boys do!! Well, okay, perhaps they don't actually eat them. After all, I've never actually seen a teenage boy munching happily on a sock. So, yes, I am sure of it. Sixteen year old boys do not eat socks. They just steal them! And don't give them back.
Until you realize have no socks left. And then you go looking deep in the bowels of the dryer for those missing socks. Because everyone knows... dryers steal socks. and then... the realization hits... dryers don't eat socks. They can't!
So, then the search continues... If I was a sock, where would I hide? You check the dishwasher, well, because it does wash things. But alas... no socks.
You check the couch because who hasn't ever found a sock in between the cushions? But again, no socks. But hey, you are now 63 cents richer!
Onward, you search. For those ever elusive socks. Until you come to a mysterious and foreboding doorway. There on the other side, lies a world many fear. Within it,lives the teenager.
There amongst the turmoil and the trash, the dirty dishes and dirty clothes, you see something that looks vaguely familiar (if not slightly darker in color than you recall).
Could it be true? Have you really found it? Hesitantly (because you never know what lies hiding in wait) you reach for it. You have it! At last, your sock.
Feeling braver, you dig through the chaos and search for other missing socks. Sometimes, you call out to them. Not that they can really hear you, but just to let them know you are coming to rescue them from the darkness.
And then you find another one. And then another. And yet another. Until finally, you cross back over the threshold into the safety of your world, with 14 of your long missing socks held tightly in your arms. You vow never to let them out of your sight again and tell them how you are so sorry for what they had to endure.
And then you go off and find your beloved 16 year old son and make him wash them. And tell him, for like the 134th time, STOP STEALING MY SOCKS!
I love being a parent!
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