Same stuff, different day

Why is it that when it is a full moon out, it does things to people? Teachers can tell you the kids act up. I can tell you that special needs people will tend to act out more. What gives? This mystery belongs up near the top of the list of unsolved mysteries of life, right behind the mystery of why one sock will disappear from the dryer.

Just for the record, my mom got a dryer installed just after Christmas time, and as of this post nothing has vanished from it, but you never know...