my dad once found a pair of mine - wrapped around the washing machine motor! and it was a long time after i had left home.. weird eh? The machine had stopped working and they took apart the thing as a last ditch effort to save it. Once my underwear was removed, everything worked right (and yes, i am very aware of how that sentence sounds.. but that is exactly what happened!)

maybe your hubby's ended up in the car's fanbelt?

i always wondered about the quantity of singular shoes on roadsides.. a prank, sure, accounts for one or two.. but i see them a lot. What could possibly explain this? How many pranks could be happening on the same stretch of highway? Isn't the prank supposed to be throwing a pair of shoes over some highway sign?