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Don't forget to change your socks

doradora
edited March 2015 in - Writing Problems
Seeing as Mrs Bear is giving out good advice, I thought I'd match that although I can't match my socks as I have too many odd ones after every wash load
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  • LizyLizy
    Be an invidualist, dora.

    If anyone comments on your odd socks. you can always say you have another pair just like that at home.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    I often wear odd socks. Matching pairs is too much like hard work. Often one sock will die before the other, so why not mix and match?
  • boredrobotsboredrobots
    Is it that time of year already!
  • Phots MollPhots Moll
    My socks always match. Not each other neccesarily, but they always match something.
  • LizLiz
    I like my socks to match what i'm wearing. I did think getting them all the same colour would help matching but curiously because each one shrunk at a different rate I still had to find the right lengths to go with each other and the right fadedness so that was even more irritating than finding the right colour socks. Sometimes I just don't bother.
  • Island GirlIsland Girl
    One of my married sons can often be seen wearing completely different socks. He's a primary school teacher so I'm not sure what message, if any, that sends out to his young students. I'm far from having OCD but the odd sock thing does grate on my subconscious sense of order.
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    I have never knowingly worn odd socks.

    *fans WM wildly in front of face to disperse the thought*

    My socks always match my outfit and are arranged in colour order in one of two sock drawers :light socks and dark socks.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    edited March 2015
    I have two drawers for socks - ordinary and walking. Most of the time I hover.

    >:D<
  • LizLiz
    In colour order...omg, how do you find time to write anything, Nell!
  • JohnnywriterJohnnywriter
    Odd socks, inside out socks, you name it - I've probably gone through every combination possible.
  • LizyLizy
    Is it ever warm enough in England for socks to show anyway?
  • heatherheather
    Only under sandals in the summer.
  • ana sana s
    Colours have an order? Scrutinises Nell's picture for evidence of a more evolved life form.
  • LizyLizy
    She's not more evolved - just seriously OCD.

    It's a good job we love her anyway.

    <3
  • LizLiz
    But you score her less than 3?
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    Out of three? Full marks!
  • LizLiz
    No, '<' means less than. There's no 'equal to' OR 'less than' on the sign. So less than 3, I'm afraid. Oh, deary me. I would definitely have given full marks.
  • ana sana s
    Still distressed about the order of colours. Ordered by wavelength, popularity, frequency of occurrence in Shakespeare? What about patterned socks. Do I need to work out the areas exactly to find the dominant colour? Sits weeping in front of odd sock bag.
  • LizLiz
    Omg, yes, what about black and white checks?

    A lot of mine are black with coloured heels and tops. All colours.

    Then of course there's the stripes. Rainbow stripes.

    Do the whites go in order of greyness?

    What am I saying. Nell doesn't have grey socks. Not that used to be white, anyhow.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    edited March 2015
    No, '<' means less than. There's no 'equal to' OR 'less than' on the sign. So less than 3, I'm afraid. Oh, deary me. I would definitely have given full marks. </p>
    :O

    Liz, you need to stop taking these things so seriously.

    Today I'm wearing matching socks.

  • LizyLizy
    edited March 2015
    < and 3 add up to a heart on FB - that's what I meant. <3

    It doesn't work on TB but I didn't know that.

    *dons dunce's cap*
  • LizyLizy
    Where did that extra bit come from?
    It doesn't show up if I go back to edit it out.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    I might just take my socks off and start again.
  • LizLiz
    I know, I know, I know. I knew it should be a heart. I know I am too literal. But that's my nature. I like things to be correct. Exacting. Perfect.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    But you must spend so much time feeling disappointed.

    I'm just sipping a cheeky Merlot. It's not perfect, but it does taste darned good.

  • WiltsWilts
    :)
  • LizyLizy
    As long as you didn't filter it through a sock, Baggy, it should be fine.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    Cheese AND wine?!
  • doradora
    Now I am led to try and remember what IS that whiffy cheese called? The one laced with varicose veins?
  • JenJen
    I love novelty socks. I bought a book on making your socks into things e.g. puppets, phone holders, a desk tidy but I haven't done anything
    I don't have any old socks
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    I daren't tell you what I did the other week.

    OK, I dare.

    I photographed every jumper - in colour order*. That way, I can look at the pics on my phone and remind myself what's there before choosing. I did my shoes last year.

    *white/cream/yellow/pink/peach/orange/red/purple/blue (light to navy)/brown/grey black.

    This isn't always set in stone. Sometimes light grey goes next to white. You know how it is.
  • heatherheather
    If you came to my house I think you'd have a nervous breakdown
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    8-}
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    TN, was that a late April Fool joke? Really?

    :O
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    Uh, no.

    *hangs head in deepest shame... then bends down to pick speck off the carpet*
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    I actually shook my head.
  • doradora
    I actually pushed my chair a little way away from the screen
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    I actually (almost) stopped eating.
  • doradora
    I'm actually outta here
  • JohnnywriterJohnnywriter
    Wow, TN.

    You make my wife, who is nicknamed Monica after the OCD Friends character, look like Rab C Nesbitt.
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    Maybe it's time for me to change my ways.

    I'll try some aversion therapy tomorrow and wear odd socks.

    *is pleased to have got the topic back on track*
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    We will need proof. A photo would suffice.
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    I could fold under this pressure.

    *considers staging a photo*
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books

    image


  • LizyLizy
    No, BB, that won't do. They're not all pointing the same way, and the two longest aren't next to each other.
    Get a grip, woman!
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    Almost symmetrical. Almost.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    That photo was taken on Christmas Day a few years ago. Blame the arrangement on the second glass of sherry.
  • LizLiz
    I was getting worried that you ironed your socks for a second then...
  • LizyLizy
    You mean you don't, Liz?
  • heatherheather
    I was getting worried that you ironed your socks for a second then...
    Surely ironing them for a second would make no difference at all.
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