This is not my usual financial column as I am away from my office and will not be back for another 10 days. There will not be any column next week as I am taking my grandson for a trip down the Rio Grande river. We will not have Internet or email. I had this idea in my head the other night and wrote a little story about my lost socks. Hope you enjoy it.

Where is my sock? I put 12, 6 matching pair in the washing machine and threw the dripping mess in the dryer.

Now there are only eleven.

Where is number twelve? I checked the dryer and the washer. This happens every so often and that extra one never shows up.

They were a matched pair. Maybe they didn't like each other any more and decided to get a divorce. She or he took off for parts unknown. Maybe there is a place they go. Most of them seem to stay. It must be really nice.

There are no smelly feet or tight shoes or being thrown in a laundry basket with all that dirty underwear.

How do they get there? How else? They walk.One sock? Walk? It takes a pair to walk.

Maybe that is what happened. My one sock must have some kind Sock Internet and was lured away by another unhappy from someone else's laundry. That's it!! My plain brown went off with with a calf high Argyle.

I have to get into that Sock Internet and lure my wayward ankle high back to my sock drawer. They surely must miss him (her). They always seemed like such a good couple. Folded together. Cuddled for days at a time.

Are there no sock marriage counselors? If we could find a few of them maybe we could stop all this sock unhappiness. No more disappearing socks. No more sock divorce.They could live happily ever after until toe holes us do part.

That is when sock life marches to its end. We all reach our journey's conclusion. Humans, socks. The cycle is complete. Some short, others long. Memories of happy feet will live forever in Sock Heaven.

Al Thomas' book, "If It Doesn't Go Up, Don't Buy It!" has helped thousands of people make money and keep their profits with his simple 2-step method. Read the first chapter at http://www.mutualfundmagic.com and discover why he's the man that Wall Street does not want you to know. Copyright 2010 Williamsburg Investment Co. All rights reserved.