The delightful comfort of wearing warm socks when the weather has taken a turn for the chilly is disrupted by stepping in a splash of water, such as that created by a large hairy dog drinking incautiously
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Release yourself from the tyranny of the paired sock! Break free those shackles of matched designs! Put on a random dry sock, and put an entirely different random dry sock on the other foot, and, lo, the world will not end! Even if the arbiters of etiquette might want to ostractise you from polite society for ever more for such a "crime", they will never know!
There is nothing wrong with random socks - it allows each foot to have its own identity. After all if RF is having a red day and LF is having a yellow day, why should they have to compromise and wear orange (thereby satisfying neither)?
I wish I could do the unmatched sock thing. Every so often I resolve to try it, but always end up sneaking back upstairs and swapping back to matched socks. which is odd because in general, odd socks seems like the kind of thing I'd do.
I've always preferred to bypass the problem entirely by wearing slippers (because despite the name, they are less slippery on a bare floor than socks, which caused an acquaintance of mine to break a leg when coming down his stairs more quickly than he had intended). Preferably the sort with a proper non-water-absorbent sole, and a slight heel, precisely to address the indoor puddle problem. If I ever have to live in a cold country again, I am ordering some possum-fur-lined ones from New Zealand.
I knew a slipper enthusiast would turn up eventually!
In theory I have some crocs that I use for this purpose. In practice, I am always forgetting which ones I designated slipperalikes and wandering outside in them or losing them...
Basically I applaud your method but am too slipshod (literally!) and careless to follow it consistently.
I use cheap croc-alikes for the garden, since I don't need them for warmth, and they're easy to wash. My garden is not big enough that snakes are a ris. Most snakes here will keep out one's way, but the local vipers and spitting cobras tend to be bad tempered and will hold their ground; park maintenance workers wear boots.
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The socks did in fact dry out while I walked the dogs in them. Now all feet are happy again.
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I bought two packages.
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(also for some reason every single pair of socks I own seems to be a different shape and weight as well as colour.)
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Your most excellent description of wet bit sock had me in stitches
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I wish I could do the unmatched sock thing. Every so often I resolve to try it, but always end up sneaking back upstairs and swapping back to matched socks. which is odd because in general, odd socks seems like the kind of thing I'd do.
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In theory I have some crocs that I use for this purpose. In practice, I am always forgetting which ones I designated slipperalikes and wandering outside in them or losing them...
Basically I applaud your method but am too slipshod (literally!) and careless to follow it consistently.
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