Power Failure and a Socks problem

Yesterday I went home early. Wanted to wash some clothes and sleep on time, so that i could reach office on time(Recently i've been reaching around 10:30!). I got home around 9. Soaked the clothes and was just flipping channels when it started to rain. I didn't think much of it, but mausam let out a groan and complained that the power would soon go. And so it did. Now it was around 11 at night, no power at all, my mob was out of charge, all my socks were soaking in a hot concoction of water and surf. I needed to get atleast a pair out, so that i would have something to wear to office the next day. So i decided to rinse some of them in the dark and put them to dry. Now i had soaked 4 pairs of socks, and in the dark there was no way to figure out a pair. This reminded me of the socks pair problem we all did as kids. You have 10 pairs of socks in a drawer in a dark room. 5 black and 5 white pairs, what is the minimum number of socks you need to take out to get a pair? the answer is 3. Applying the same logic i need to take out 5 socks to ensure that i have a wearable pair in the morning, but what the hell, i rinsed all of them(so much for problem solving abilities). Not that i could have gone to sleep anyway, with all those mosquitoes making attempts at a major blood transfusion. Anyway the good news is that the power did come back on at around three in the morning and i was finally able to go back to sleep and in the morning i had a choice between four pairs of freshly washed socks to wear to office;)