Missing Socks

I have no doubt than I am no different than anyone else.

Two socks go through the wash and dry cycle and only one comes out the other side.

It’s a mystery at the level of Who built Stonehenge?

But what I also find troublesome is that no matter how filled my pen and pencil container is, every time I need to use a writing instrument, none are to be had.

They have vanished with no children to blame.

Yet unlike the hair elastics that I still find scattered on the floor in every room in my house despite the fact that my nest has been empty for months, I never find  a pen or pencil randomly lying around for me to gather up and put back in its place.

It is as if the pens and pencils either biodegrade or are assumed into heaven like the Virgin Mary.

And for as many theories as there are out there regarding how and why Stonehenge was built, we will never know the truth for sure. All we do know with certainty is that buried in the surrounding area of the monoliths are human bones, roman coins and other artifacts.

But no socks—or pens either.

And so the mystery continues….