Corey's missing socks

It was early on a Saturday morning during cartoon time that Corey heard his mom call for him. “Cory! Could you please come to here for a minute?” He didn’t want to go, it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle time on the TV and his mom knew it was his favorite show. She called to him again “Corey Mikel, Come here!"

When he arrived at the laundry room door he saw his mother standing there with a fist full of socks and a strange look on her face. “What mom? You know its time for my cartoons!” he whined. Corey’s mom looked at him with that mom look that scares all little kids and he stopped.

“Do you know what these are?” His mom asked

“Of course! They’re socks!” He replied proudly

His mother looked at him with that same scary look again and said “These are socks with no mates to them. Do you have any idea what happened to the mates?”

Corey thought for few seconds then said “Sure! There’s this squirrel that comes into the laundry room and takes them back to his house.”

Mom looked at Corey strangely and asked “Why would a squirrel want your socks?”

“I don’t know, maybe he gets cold at his house.”

Corey’s mom didn’t know what to say to that so she let him go back to the cartoons he had been watching.

Later that day Corey’s mom was doing the dishes and looking out the kitchen window. What she saw surprised her and made her laugh right out loud. “Corey! Quick! Come and see this!”

Corey came running “What mom?”

“Look!” his mom said as she pointed out the window at the little grey squirrel running across the lawn with … you guessed it! A sock!

They both laughed and ran out the back door to follow the squirrel. He ran from tree to tree, he jumped and tried to hide, but Corey and his mom were close behind him. Finally, the squirrel ducked into a hole in a tree. Corey’s mom lifted him up to see inside. Corey began to giggle, wiggle and his mom almost dropped him.

When Corey could catch his breath he said “Mom that squirrel has a FAMILY in there! They are all snuggled up in my socks! Can the squirrel keep my socks mom?”

“Of course the squirrel can keep your socks Corey” She said with a giggle as she glanced up at the hole. The squirrel poked its head out of the hole and squeaked at her as if to say “thank you”. Corey’s mom said “Your welcome. Now don’t take anymore of Corey’s socks please!” The squirrel squeaked again and disappeared back into the hole.

No more socks disappeared in Corey’s house and he could watch his cartoons every Saturday morning from then on.