I was doing laundry the other day (all good stories start that way, right?). I have a stackable washer/dryer and sometimes things fall between them and the wall but eventually get worked out by the vibrations. As I was putting wet clothes in the dryer, I noticed a sock sticking out from behind the door to the laundry closet. I picked it up.

And then realized it wasn’t my sock.

No, really, I’d never seen this sock before.

My first thought (irrational, to be sure) was that someone was breaking into my house and doing laundry.

Then I remembered that my catsitter doesn’t have a washer and dryer and I told her to feel free to use mine when she was watching the boys.