The mysterious case of the missing vinegar

At first we thought one (or both) of us was going crazy. Eldon wanted some vinegar to clean something and couldn't find it. I said, "It's out in the laundry." He said, "I looked there." So I looked. No vinegar. How could a half full gallon of vinegar simply disappear? So we wrote it on the grocery list.

Then I did some laundry. When I went to take the clothes out there was the gallon jug of vinegar in with them! And it had become unbalanced and stopped mid cycle. Puzzlement abounded. Accusations flew.

Then Eldon remembered Gideon! They had spent last Saturday with us while Neil ran the MacDonald Forest Run. Gideon had spent some time messing around in the laundry. He likes to put things into things. I remembered when he put the handheld Yahtsee game into the VCR player slot. Also one time he climbed into the clothes washer at his house while it was going. Pam heard some bumping during the spin cycle and rescued him.

Mystery solved. We crossed vinegar off the grocery list.