I agree with Emanuela's law! It also holds for flashlights and scissors and needle-nose pliers (why do I suddenly want to break into a chorus of "My Favorite Things"?).

I'm hopeless at handwritingYou are not, sir!

Several years ago, my husband and my brother- and sister-in-law dragged me to see somebody I'd barely heard of, but he turned out to be pretty funny. I think it was George Carlin. Anyway, one of the things we still talk about is his explanation that, somewhere in the universe, there is a humongous pile of Lost Things: millions of odd socks, etc.
So Ted, if you can just locate this pile, you'll find all the socks. Oh--also, it is not known how the things get TO
the pile--they just appear.