# I thought I could be cheeky **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-could-be-cheeky/959382 "2022-02-12T22:41:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-could-be-cheeky/959382/6 "2022-02-13T08:23:23Z")
What is your sock strategy? Do you have all your pairs of socks look the same so you never had to deal with getting the right socks paired up? Or do you have all-different socks so every sock is paired up with exactly one other? If you have read the fairly-recent sockophagy thread from about a month ago, you will see that we have talked about this at length. By the way, your sockophagic laundry appliances might simply be eating your socks a bite at a time. That sock with the hole in it was already partially eaten. ETA: Almost forgot the link. Here 'tis: > [@Where does the orphaned sock go?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-the-orphaned-sock-go/957657): > > So I just encountered this situation at the Omni house and a shower thought was born. The wife did laundry and one of my socks came out without his buddy. Lonely but clean, my wife filed him into the sock drawer to await the fate of his long lost twin. Today his twin turned up, buried in a pile of my wife’s dirty pajamas heaped in front of the closet. I rescued him to the hamper and chose to reunite him with his pal by fetching his clean little doppleganger from the nightstand and unceremonious… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-could-be-cheeky/959382)._