gnomes
By the way, we don’t give nearly enough credit to gnomes.
They have captured a great number of our socks, an incredible feat as almost none of us have ever caught one in the act. They stow things away from where we have set them right before our own eyes, completely undetected. Things that were in the closet have somehow disappeared — at their hands. And, they operate elevators.
There’s an “Elevator Closet” right next to the basement lift here where I work. I press the button to go up, and a great din of clicking and whirring emanates from behind the heavy, securely locked blue door. Behind it, a great number of gnomes are pulling levers and pushing buttons. It takes quite a team of them, as gnomes are rather small and eleveators as you know are giant, heavy, unwieldy things. An incredible feat.
Not to mention all your missing underpants.
