>collar button that always managed to find the darkest corner under the dresser.

OOOOH. You gave me a chance to tie two threads together. In our household it has been empirically established that our clothes dryer has transmutational qualities, some of which should bear warning labels relating to quantum physics.

The heat of our dryer turns socks into wire clothes hangers. That's why our socks disappear and we are overrun with hangers.

TEd



TEd