When a paperclip, even a paperclip that is holding papers, goes missing, it is not much noted, except with perhaps annoyance. When a sock disappears, the pairless mate is tucked into the sock drawer with a groan, hoping the other will show up inside a sweater. Years, even decades later, the pairless sock may be thrown away or recycled into a duster.
Other items' disappearances are more difficult to dismiss, but not impossible. The bar of bath soap, the new package of Oreos, one dinner plate: all chalked up to a scattered brain.
However: when the missing item is the living room carpet, all the jeans in the house, the television screen (not the entire TV, just the screen), the disappearances become inexplicable.
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