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For this week’s Friday Five, the increasingly well-organized transitus asks:

Philip Gulley writes: “Sometimes we lose things before we??re done needing them. ” What are five things you lost before you were done needing them?

Oh, there have been so many things. Let’s see:

A runner-up would be about six of my socks. A certain roommate I had in the past seemed to decide that if I ever left socks in the machine by accident, he should hang them and then take them into his own sock drawer. I don’t know if he was really just that sloppy, and I’d like to think it was just that, but one time I remember him organizing a sock exchange with me. Now, yes, I had some of his socks. Some of our socks looked exactly the same, and maybe the guy thought I was stealing his socks. But really, I wasn’t… I thought they were singles of mine, matching the ones that disappeared. But while I was always just stuffing socks into my drawer and matching them as I needed them, the other guy was matching his carefully and leaving the extras to the side. So anyway, one day he arranged a sock exchange with me, and you would not believe: it was ever so vaguely reminiscent of an exchange of hostages! He wanted to see my extras first, and I think at some point we even argued about whose socks were these grey ones. “They’re expensive mountain-hiking socks! They’re mine!”

Uh, okay. But they looked like my cheapo Teacher’s-Day Present socks.

You know, when you are arguing with someone about socks, and he says anything with as much passion as that, there’s been enough of a breakdown in communication that you’ll never be able to live with him again. You’ll never even be able to take him seriously again, really.

At least I can laugh about it now. If you’d like to laugh at what other Friday Fivers have lost, check out the links in the sidebar.

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