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Your Fears Are Correct - Washing Machines Really Are Eating Your Socks

Your Fears Are Correct - Washing Machines Really Are Eating Your Socks

Now if we could only find out where the TV remote goes...

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

We've all been there - you think you're adulting at never-before-seen levels by getting your washing sorted on your day off, then you remove the load and take it upstairs to find out that half of your socks have gone missing.

You check the basket, the machine, the cupboard under the stairs, but there are no stray garments to be seen anywhere. You are forced to chalk it up to experience, because it's not as if they could have just been swallowed up by the washing machine, right?

Well, it turns out that is exactly what might have happened.

A couple from California have told Bored Panda about the haul that they discovered inside the belly of a washing machine when trying to fix it. They came across loads of socks, underwear, and even a credit card.

Cathy Hinz

Cathy Hinz and her husband work as property developers and also run a mobile home park - one day her husband was taking a look at a washing machine that just wouldn't work properly when he made the discovery that proves we aren't all mad after all.

Upon removing the bottom panel, he was shocked (but not really shocked, because we all KNEW IT) to find a clogged mish-mash of clothes jamming up the whole thing.

Oh, and he also found about $7 (£5) worth in loose change in there.

Cathy shared a post that said: "Today, my husband got tired of fooling with one of the washing machines that was just not working properly and decided to take it apart, starting with the bottom panel.

"To his shock, this is what he found. Socks, underwear, a credit card... and that is just what was in the bottom of the machine.

"Now, for those of you that SWEAR, your machine eats your small things, and have been told by 'professionals' and others that this fable just is not true... Here is the proof!"

Cathy Hinz

She continued: "I don't know what to say! Twenty-five years he has been doing this job, and for 25 years he has been working on appliances, including washers and dryers. But NEVER have we seen this!

"So next time you are missing socks, just remember! That washing machine might just be hungry!"

As breakthroughs go, this is a big one - hopefully it will start an arms race between all of the major washing machine companies to finally solve the problem which, hilariously, is known as Missing Sock Syndrome.

We as a species must work as hard as we can to eradicate the scourge of MSS in our lifetime.

Featured Image Credit: chispita_666 (Creative Commons)

Topics: Clothes, Technology, Weird