CLOTHES HANGER WISDOM
Why is it that after twelve children watch TV and munch on a half pound of crackers, the cracker crumbs on the floor weigh one pound? Is there an undiscovered law of “the spontaneous creation of rubbish” that operates in the kitchen? How do some household pets apparently shed and replace an entire coat of hair in one day? Is it true that pens and pencils tend to disappear from closed drawers? Why is it that populations of wooden coat hangers dwindle and disappear but wire coat hangers somehow multiply? Why does one sock from each pair disappear somewhere between the hamper and the end of the dryer cycle? (Note: the mysterious proliferation of wire hangers and the disappearance of socks may be connected in a sinister plot. Some theorize that one sock out of every pair is actually the larval form of a wire coat hanger and, in the middle of the night it slips out of the clothes dryer,…
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