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What are the odds that my daughter's socks drawer contains exclusively single socks? Over 20 socks but not a single pair
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Pretty high if she did that on purpose
Nah, she's too young for to be playing a trick on me. Whenever she gets home, the fist things she does is taking off her socks, so we find socks everywhere in the house. She often wears mismatched socks, but this just baffles me. Not a single pair, I swear that's the content of the drawer.
Watch her take off the socks noting where she leaves each one. Could we be seeing a higher rate of lost socks because of how she chooses to discard the left sock from her foot vs the right sock? Is there perhaps a piece of furniture underneath which is all the missing mates to her socks?
I find socks everywhere, under furniture, in every room, etc. I mean, I knew she would often has mismatched socks, but damn, how did we got to that point?