User:Viriditas/Missing socks

Missing socks also known as lost socks, or more imaginatively as the odd socks mystery, is a philosophical problem, often used in a humorous context, found in developed societies that use laundry machines and dryers to clean their clothing. At some point in the process, a sock may be "lost" in the washer or the dryer, leading to the problem of mismatched or missing socks. Scientist Albert Einstein is often invoked in a discussion of this philosophical problem as he "solved" it by going sock-less.