Last Saturday when I folded the laundry, I discovered that there was one sock missing.
Dutifully, I went back into the basement and carefully swept my hand around the base of the washing machine’s agitator.
Nope, no sock there.
I checked the dryer and it wasn’t there either.
So I went over every inch of the route between the basement and the bedroom to see if I may have dropped a sock along the way. Not that I could see.
Hmm, it must have gotten rolled up into a sweatshirt or something, I thought. So I went over each newly folded shirt.
Not there.
Stymied in my search, I put the orphaned sock on the shelf behind the HomePod, expecting the errant sock would turn up eventually.
And forgot about the whole thing.
* * *
A few minutes ago, I noticed something odd pressed against my tummy. A little extra bulge where no bulge oughta be. Thinking that my undershirt had rolled up or something like that, I felt under there and—
—and pulled out the sock.
It had worked its way into the undershirt and lay flat in there all this time so that even when I pulled it on this morning, I hadn’t noticed it. Until I started moving around.