They all go into an alternate universe, everyone knows that. If you can’t find that left(or right)sock it is because someone in another dimension needed it! I am only half joking because we all know that socks do go missing in a washing machine that should show the socks but there it is, gone. As for spoons, well wouldn’t you need spoons in another dimension?
No, they don't go missing. Socks mate in the washer and give birth in the dryer.
How else could you explain that oddball sock that shows up every once in a while when you just know you've never bought any like that?
Left or right sock?
Are you serious?
This is a true story: a good friend of my wife was separated from her husband and staying at her brother’s house; after about a month and a half of doing his laundry, her own and the two boys the washer died.
Her brother who had no mechanical skills or interest in fiddling with such things bought a new washer and we ended up with the broken one.
Just for the heck of it, I figured out the pump wasn’t working so I took it apart and started looking at it.
I couldn’t turn the coupling by hand so I took out the plate screws and opened it up expecting to find a broken gear.
There inside the machine was a tangled up piece of tan Nylon - my wife’s friend had washed her pantyhose and that machine ate them.
Scout’s Honor!
After being "lost" they migrate to a dark corner of your closet where they later emerge in their adult state as ---
flimsy wire hangers.