Someone has alerted me to another grim point in the odd sock conundrum and it is this: how come it's never the odd ones that have holes in? Clearly it's not going to be because of an active throwing out policy, as anyone who throws out one of a pair simply because it's got a hole in would surely chuck the other one too? I imagine that's how such an orderly mind would work anyway, unless they kept the odd ones for Some Other Purpose, in which case they wouldn't be all mixed up in the sock drawer with the pairs would they? No these are the socks of the averagely muddled sock owner who seeks a pair amongst the masses of random singles and finding one only discovers that it is in fact incomplete when putting on the second sock. As was my experience this morning. It's a hard life sometimes. Nice black woolly soft ones with a hole in the toe.