Not all black socks are alike
It’s amazing how difficult a morning routine involving black socks.
The idea having many black socks it intended to make the waking-up-going-to-work process that little bit easier – when you’ve got to leave a 8.30am and sleep until 8.07am every second counts. Diving out of bed and into the shower provides enough wake-up-power to the mind to enable what I like to think of as ‘getting dressed’ One of the earlier, but critical, steps in this process is the Donning Of Socks.
The sock draw opens to reveal a murky black cottony sea. A hand dives in and clutches at fabric blindly, pulling free a lonesome foot-glove. That’s the easy part. Assuming this first step has yielded a satisfactory article (not too many holes, not too thin, not too much like leggings) then The Mission begins. You must understand… not all black socks are alike. Some are longer, some are stretchier, some have a thin white line across the toes. It is paramount that two socks of the same ilk be Chosen to adorn the feet of a day. There have been occasions where the mixing of dissimilar black socks has been the only option open (save going sock-less which tends to lead to blisters and the such) and these experiences teach that, ultimately, once the initial horror of sullying your feet with such mis-matchery has subsided there is no real difference. In the panic of Morning Routine however the Donning Of Socks remains an important ritual to get right.