I have heard of washing machines eating socks, and pixies that sneak in, in the middle of the night and eat the chocolate biscuits!
However...
I have never heard of a case where a dishwasher vanishes forks?
At some point last year I had at least 12 forks, 12 knives, 12 spoons and umpteen teaspoons, yesterday I only had 2 forks left in the drawer? So I checked in the dishwasher expecting to find the remaining forks..
Eh uh!
There was only 1 lonely fork! First point of call was to Hubby enquiring if he was stockpiling them - in case of a mass fork shortage - the response is not printable (!) but the general gist was in the negative.
I happened to mention to Brother the situation we were in, when, lo, he responded that he has a similar situation with knives!
We can only conclude that maybe Mother is after a new dining set... so where is she going to get the spoons from!
Someone at work was complaining about the same problem. She then realised exactly what was happening: each day, she'd prepare lunch and put it into her bag along with the fork to eat it with; after lunch she'd pack the lunchbox back into her bag but wouldn't remember to put back the fork which, in the fullness of time, would make its way into the communal stock in the office kitchen.
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I sort of had the same problems with teaspoons - they were vanishing up to the pit which is Son's room... and one day I complained about it. Imagine how funny it was when Son came home one day, having bought me a "present"... a set of (9??) teaspoons!! Monkey!
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