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Funny (not necessarily ‘ha ha,’ but sometimes that, too) how things sometimes start.
Somehow something got in my shoe.
It’s sort of like the sock that disappears in the dryer. We don’t know how it happens, but it seems to.
In case you didn’t know, there’s actually a missing sock day.
May 9.
I’m not sure how that was decided upon, or who decided, but it’s been designated Lost Sock Awareness Day.
Not that it’s an official holiday, mind you.
New Year’s, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas — none of those established holidays need worry May 9 will join their august group.
Having another holiday in our country will probably never catch on.
Certainly one as whimsical as a lost sock day.
But, if you’re a believer in the Great Pumpkin of ‘Peanuts’ lore, perhaps, for you, on that day, the god of lost socks comes out from where he dwells and works his magic.
All the missing socks get reunited with their partners and things are well — if only for one day.
Perhaps, like Cinderella’s coach which reverts into a pumpkin at the stroke of midnight, by May 10 the socks go missing again and the owners of said socks have…
