missing socks...

With no dryer in our apartment in Prague I thought I would no longer have the problem of dissappearing socks. We all know that dryers just eat socks...how else can you explain the mulitude of unmatched socks in the world? I have another explanation.....the wind takes them! I was never quite sure if I was always bringing in the same amount of clothing that I put out on the line. Today confirmed that things can, in fact, fall off the clothesline even when secured by clothespins. I went downstairs today to get my mail and what did I find in our mailbox??? Ali's sock!! Some kind person in our building must have seen it and picked it up and put it in our mailbox. Luckily we are the only apartment with kids in the building so there was no question as to who the owner of the sock was. Now I have to wonder if other things have fallen off that I just didn't notice.