The sock thing drive me NUTS. My youngest wears little toddler socks and they are the short ankle socks at that. I bought him a not pack the other day and I swear to you that I washed them and every single one of them DISAPPEARED! I got smart. I went and got one of those mesh laundry bags! I'll teach the dang washer and dryer to eat clothes, I'll starve them to death!
I wonder why the electric company doesn't make the lines plug in like an power cord? That way if a line goes down they just go out remove the tree, ice, car, or whatever pulled the line down and then just plug the line back in.