The case of the missing underwear...

I don't know what's happening, but I seem to keep losing my underwear.

Sounds exciting, doesn't it?  Sorry, but it's not.

The first time it happened, I was meeting a friend for dinner after a planned training swim.  I'd left work, went to the pool, swam (and had a really good swim I might add....) and then when I was getting dressed afterwards to meet her for dinner, I couldn't find my underwear.

Anywhere.

It wasn't on the pool deck, it wasn't in the bathroom, it was in the change rooms, it wasn't in my bag, it wasn't caught up in my clothes.  It was NOWHERE.

Really not that big of a deal, I guess.  I've been known to go commando a few times at the cottage, but the problem was - aside from not having underwear, and yes, I think that's a problem - I was wearing a dress.  A work dress, but a dress all the same.  And although not short, it was above my knees - which meant when I sat down on the subway on the way to meet my friend, I felt very Sharon Stone-ish.  Mind you, I didn't lean back and cross my legs or anything..

Luckily, I met my friend at the local shopping mall, so although she wanted to meet at a certain location, I told her I couldn't, because they didn't sell underwear.

She didn't ask.  She's known me too long.

So a random occurrence?  Possibly, but it seems this week I've lost my sports bra.  I know I washed it last weekend at the cottage and when I couldn't pack it in my bag because it wasn't fully dry when I was leaving, I bunched it separately with the not-yet-dry short and t-shirt.  Somehow the running shorts and running shirt that were with it made it home, but the sports bra didn't.

I've looked in the car, I've looked in the garage, I've looked between my car and my apartment, I've looked all through my drawers and I've even looked up at the cottage, but nope.  It's not here.

How do these things just disappear?

Better question - WHY are these things disappearing??