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The hozone layer

There used to be a book called "snigglets," full of words that aren't in the dictionary, but should be. For example, "picklessence" was the waiter's art of interrupting you when you had a mouthful of food to ask, "Is everything OK?"

The "hozone" (or "hose-zone") is the place where lost socks go in the laundry. I have been plagued lately by children's socks disappearing. It was especially troubling when one of Eleanor's fancy socks would go missing, since she is particularly picky about how her socks and shoes fit.

A few days ago, the washer came up with an error code. Of course, this happened just before we went to sleep, but Michael got up and investigated. It turns out the washer was not draining very well. Well, after we got the laundry out of the washer, I was poking around and found a hiding hole under the rubber gasket around the door. In that hole, there were about 10 kids socks. Later, Michael found the filter basket for the washer. The basket was packed tight with baby socks, pieces of paper, candy wrappers, etc. No wonder I was having a hard time finding socks for the kids!

I guess I'll start putting their socks in a lingerie bag. At least the age old mystery is solved, at least for a while, until Luke decides to start burying socks in the garden...
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Anonymous said…
That is hilarious. Did you find any of my socks in there too?

FNDP
October 3, 2008 at 5:44 AM
mathmom said…
No, sorry. But if I do find one, I'll let you know!
October 3, 2008 at 8:49 AM
Anonymous said…
pickletulance (something like that) was the ability to memorize everyone's fast food order.
October 5, 2008 at 9:47 PM
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