Challenge Question set 15/04/05

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Why is it that I can never find a teaspoon, although I used to have loads? Why is it that whenever I need a pen, I search high and low but can never find one? Why is it that whenever I do my washing, although I check the washing and drying machines very carefully, I always lose a sock? Where do all these teaspoons, pens and socks go?
 
I recieved many interesting replies for this question. There are a lot of theories about this, so no-one's absolutely sure. Parallel universes, strange people taking them, just thrown in the bin...? The truth is still out there...
 
In our house, the socks that go missing are usually under the never ending pit of Nathan's bed or one is left on his foot. The pens we usually find in a box in the cupboard, but teaspoons are another thing. My mum thinks the school collect them when I take yoghurts to school. (from Alice - Year 4)

 
Hmmm... a good theory about the teaspoons Alice, but we have only a few left ourselves, even though a couple of years ago we had enough for every teacher in school to use two at once...
 

In our house we have Mr Nobody. Do you? We have Mr Nobody because:
- it's a good excuse because we can get out of things
- every time mum says "Where is that...?", it's Mr Nobody because no-one says it's them.
(from Megan - year 3)
 
Socks, teaspoons and pens: You get teaspoons covered in ink from the pens so you put them in the bin. Then the pens run out so you throw them in the bin. You put the washing basket near the hamster cage and the hamster chews the sock up and so everything is in the bin! (from Emma - Year 4)