# I lost a pair of shorts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 30, 2005, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417 "2005-01-30T10:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/1 "2005-01-30T10:18:20Z")
They were a nice pair of shorts with lots of nice pockets. Where could they have gone? I don’t have a roommate, so they weren’t stolen. There’s no way I lost them at the laundry, I am too careful about stuff like that. I’ve checked all my drawers and in my car. Where the hell did my shorts go? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/2 "2005-01-30T11:34:30Z")
Move on, I’m afraid your shorts in in the realm of biros, TV remotes, and everything else you need at some point but can never find. They may return one day, they may not. Live in hope. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/3 "2005-01-30T11:40:10Z")
Were they grey? If so, I threw them out a couple days ago… they had a hole in the crotch. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/4 "2005-01-30T12:45:21Z")
[rain man] These are DEFINITELY not my shorts. [/rain man] ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/5 "2005-01-30T14:01:46Z")
Might they be in a laundry basket? When I do laundry, I’ve been known to miss something in the bottom of the basket, and I don’t find it again until I do laundry again. Robin ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/6 "2005-01-30T14:33:48Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Might they be in a laundry basket? When I do laundry, I’ve been known to miss something in the bottom of the basket, and I don’t find it again until I do laundry again. > > Robin Nope. Went through all my laundry, even looked under the bed and behind the couch. Hmm … ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/7 "2005-01-30T14:59:39Z")
They’re in the same place all of the single missing socks go to. Either that, or it was stolen by the monsters in your closet. I guess they don’t much like going around naked. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/8 "2005-01-30T15:03:29Z")
Pull out the bottom drawer of your chest of drawers. They may have fallen behind there, and may have been small enough not to affect the closing of the drawer. It’s happened to me with a few t-shirts, so now it’s the first place I check if I can’t find something in the drawers. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/9 "2005-01-30T15:15:07Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > Nope. Went through all my laundry, even looked under the bed and behind the couch. Hmm … Sure, you looked under the couch, but did you check under the cushions? ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/10 "2005-01-30T17:14:30Z")
It’s simple. You never had such a pair of shorts. It was all a/an hallucination. Seek extensive therapy immediately. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/11 "2005-01-30T21:51:06Z")
> [@David Simmons](#): > > It’s simple. You never had such a pair of shorts. It was all a/an hallucination. Seek extensive therapy immediately. This could become the unexplained case of the Cheshire shorts. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/12 "2005-01-30T22:02:12Z")
Interestingly, my mother called recently to tell me that she had misplaced a black turtleneck sweater. I have a different problem with clothes - I know what I have, I just can’t get to most of it. For instance, all of my shorts are in the bottom of a cedar chest in my living room. There’s a small pile of junk on the lid of that chest; if I want to open the chest, I have to find somewhere to put the junk. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/13 "2005-01-31T06:18:09Z")
They’re wadded up under something else. Clean that pigsty up and you’ll find them toot sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/14 "2005-01-31T06:23:37Z")
Hmm… what are you wearing now? ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/15 "2005-01-31T06:45:38Z")
> [@astro](#): > > They’re wadded up under something else. Clean that pigsty up and you’ll find them toot sweet! Ah ha!!! You have been to my place. Here’s our first clue. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/16 "2005-01-31T06:47:19Z")
> [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > Hmm… what are you wearing now? I’ll give you my AOL sn if you want to talk like this. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/17 "2005-01-31T20:01:31Z")
IF yOu wANt to seE yOUR SHortS AGaiN, pLAce One MILliON DOllARs iN THE trAsH cAn at 8tH & WEstERn ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/18 "2005-01-31T20:22:20Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > They were a nice pair of shorts with lots of nice pockets. Perhaps the last time you were through wearing them you put them in one of the nice pockets for safe keeping. _No wonder_ you can’t find them. Either that, or you’re still wearing them. ---
**Author:** ![FrostySonofThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@FrostySonofThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrostySonofThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/19 "2005-01-31T20:59:27Z")
[Tweek] AAAHH, it’s the Underpants Gnomes! The’re expanding into new territory. [/Tweek] ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417/20 "2005-01-31T21:34:07Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > Perhaps the last time you were through wearing them you put them in one of the nice pockets for safe keeping. > _No wonder_ you can’t find them. Of, I have this problem _all the time_. I keep having to open spacial rifts into the universe of pant that is created whenever something liken this happens. It’s not as bad as that time I got into the bag that I was carrying, though. That sucked. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-a-pair-of-shorts/287417.md?page=2)