Soooo the facts of life.

Not those facts, but truisms

[Essex_boy]

I found out this year that despite living in a student bedsite, all of one room and a shower cubicle, I could stil lose the other half of a pair of socks. Not once but several of them over 3 months.

Incredible but true.

[py9jmas]

The same sock each time?

[inbound]

Did you also find out that, in a bedsit, it's impossible to place an alarm clock far enough away from you to make it effective?

As a student I lived in a small flat which had a tiny bedroom, one big stretch and I could switch off the alarm clock whilst still in bed (getting up was not my forte in those days).

Nowadays I still tend to like an extra ten minutes in bed but having to hike to the other side of a much bigger room to hit snooze usually fixes that.

[Essex_boy]

No I place my alarm clock aka Blackberry on the floor.

[smellystudent]

I find hiding the alarm clock under the bed to work best.

My student room was roughly twice the size of the narrow bed within it. Under the bed was the only place I couldn't reach without getting out of bed.

[ska_demon]

I have a large room, large enough to lose stuff in the clutter but small enough to kick the glass of water I leave by my bed at night into the extension lead that powers my PC.

Every morning, without fail! BANG! electric off!

No matter where I put the glass it moves in the night to a kickable position.

Aaah UPS and a very good trip system. I sleep well

Ska

[lgn1]

Lost socks proves Brane Theory, and a dryer acts as a portal between Brane's where only socks can pass :)

[Leosghost]

not forgetting lost ball point pens which mutate into empty coathangers ;)

[Essex_boy]

Yeah ballpoint pens, Ive loads of these in the car normally but when I need one?

[willybfriendly]

I could stil lose the other half of a pair of socks

Not your fault...

Recent research into the effects of spinning a drum within a strong electrical field have confirmed certain wormhole theories. It seems that the vortices set up within the flux fields stress the underlying time/space continuum, causing random failures of the weak force and a resulting breakdown of the exchange of the intermediate vector bosons. This in turn leads to the emergence of wormholes of uncertain duration within the vortices. Investigations are still underway to identify the most likely terminus of these random events.

In practical terms, this means that everytime you throw your clean clothes in the dryer you have a statistically significant chance of loosing a sock. Fear not, it will reappear in a galaxy far, far, alway...

WBF