There is even a Norwegian song about socks disappearing in the laundry machine (put in 4, retrieve only 3):
https://www.letssingit.com/%C3%B8ystein-sunde-lyrics-sokka-mine-brj31ss
Full song, courtesy of google translate, because I found it humorous:
I have seven years in elementary school,
three years at high school
But after two nights at a nursery school,
did the education go to school
I was prepared for life,
with both math and physics,
but it helped little, just see how it went
We learned about square root, and the area of a polygon,
and equations with three unknowns, and a bit about derivation
But none of mathematics's many theorems,
can help me with today's many small problems
Ref:
Where do my socks take my way when I wash them?
It seems like it's just as good to throw them,
I can put four socks in my AEG,
but when the washing is done, I only have three
The machine is there and washes,
and wait till I do not see,
then the eater saw a sock in a little jafs
and I never see that sock again.
It is picky in the food,
always eat sock without holes,
and compared to the machine 'min
X-files are just jerky
(Ref.)
Put four socks in my AEGeeeee
Turnamat 755 XLT with low-flush drying cap and yeast lock,
and washball and scullery
I can step that piece of laundry,
pour lubricant into the wash ball,
set'n on far advanced laundry
and sit and watch it stand there and shake
like an old Saab diesel for two hours
before it spins onto Richter's scale
But when I open the n to count my socks
how many socks do I have?
Do I have one ..?
Do I have two?
No, when the washing is done, I only have three.
(Ref.)
But here last week I suddenly got it,
I did not have two of a damn sock
so I shouted "Your Hell's washing pork,
I want to leave my last sock! "
Eye to eye, tooth tooth,
a sock is a sock but a man is a man,
so I shouted "Your damn AEG,
now I get my AG3! "
I took charge and lifted me to the door
I throw in and skate one in the doer
and pulled out washing clothes for clothes
and in a pillow case I knew a little piece of paper!
And I thought:
"Helledussen! Here are both mom and dad!"
But that was not part of it, it was the guinea pig
(Ref.)
Put four socks in my AEGeee!
But when the washing is done, I only have three
(RING)
"Yes, it is with Sunde?
Yes, no, so I do not buy on phone sales, so I do not.
Men Socks?
Tilbu ..
Yes, yes, yes, I need men's socks I,
i need .. yes ..
Should we say 400 blue left socks?
The donkey did you know that?
You..? Oh yes, I recognize your voice,
It was you who sold me that washing machine a month ago!
Now I take the 400 high-heeled socks
and then I'll put them down over your head
then you can stand there in the dusk and bumpy!
Your humpback!
I do not have words!
I only have high socks!