Socks from Wikipedia on socks.
I have odd socks. I am not the only one. Or the only twenty-one. Or the only sixty one. To have odd socks. The bad news is, it does not get better as you get older. When I was a child I never had odd socks. My mother saw that I wore neat little pairs of socks. I outgrew them and needed new ones. As a teenager I wore tights. Tights are really two socks joined together like gloves on a piece of elastic. Tights are for people who are tired of odd socks. That's why men are more bothered about odd socks. They were more socks - than tights - not individually, but taking a thousand men, half a dozen wear tights, the rest wear socks. Some of them have odd socks. Do they wear odd socks.
Have you ever tried to wear odd socks? When I worked in an office I would never have worn odd socks. The odd socks went into a drawer neatly labelled odd socks.
Now I work at home I wear odd socks. Not because I need to be somewhere in a hurry. Actually, yes. I suddenly need to go out to a meeting and I need to get dressed. I am too mean. Or as aI prefer to say, too keen on recycling, to throw away odd socks.
How do you hide odd socks? How many of you wear odd socks. You wear a pair under low boots, or high boots, or under tights. You hope you won't go to a house where the hostess or householder asks you if you mind removing your shoes.
What excuses. I have cold feed. Then wear socks.
Do you need to hide odd socks?
No, they hide themselves.
Supermarkets try to sell you sets of coloured trainer socks. I pair of red, one pair of blue, one pair of green. Why is it that a year later I had one of each. A matching pair of a left blue sock and a right green sock, and an odd red sock.
If only colour was the problem, or rather if colour was the only problem.
What about height? I start by matching socks by length. Nothing feels odder than a trainer sock matched with an over the knew sock, even if they are both black, or red. I worry. What would somebody say. Supposing I went into hospital. They'd put me in the wrong ward. With the Alzheimers patients. Or the psychiatric department.
Doctors would ask me, "Do you know what day it is?"
"No, I never know what day it is."
"Do you know you are wearing odd socks?"
"Yes, doctor. Of course I do. I always wear odd socks."
A commercial company has produced odd socks. Three matching pairs of odd socks. They mix up stripes and dots in six different patterns. You buy matching unmatching socks. Same colours, different combinations of patterns. You can look odd all the time.


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