I heard today by chance a conversation of my colleagues, women of pre-retirement age (Germany, the office of a large German company). Three aunts seriously discussed the disappearance of socks in washing machines. It turned out that two of them lost their socks after almost every wash. Everyone’s cars are different, the price too. Many versions have been put forward. The latter was the version that manufacturers specially make secret holes, where socks fall, so that the machine quickly failed and was handed over to repair. One added that the repairers are also in a conspiracy, they throw their socks. They crossed it, and, having mocked unfair producers, dispersed in their workplaces.