Good Sock Pairings

I like doing laundry. It makes me feel renewed. My clothes smell fresh and my laundry basket becomes empty, or at least near empty. It may take me one full load, or maybe two. I do my laundry fairly frequently. It depends on how many times I wear my favorite three pairs of underwear – usually around every three weeks or so.

After all my clothes have been washed, dried, and taken back to my room, the first thing I look for are my socks. There's nothing like a good sock safari to keep your day really interesting. Me, I've got all sorts of different types of socks. Green, black, white, brown, short socks, long socks, thick socks, and socks with holes in them. I've always found the last type of sock kind of oxymoronic. If socks didn't have holes in them, how would we get the damn things on?!

As I dive into my sock matching hunt, I always get excited as my sock scavenger hunt approaches the end. At this point I've matched the easy ones and put them to the side. Now it's a matter of finding the other matching Nintendo Wii Fit sock (or whatever strange socks your into). So after I find all of the matches I can find among the other scattered shirts, boxers, and shorts I'm left with maybe one or two socks that don't match. It's usually a white one and a black one. This is where it gets really fun. After I fold all of my other garments, and everything is put away except those two matching socks, and there is no trace of the original match to these two very different socks, I simply...put the two socks together! Maybe this is what Martin Luther King was talking about. White socks and black socks, finally together!

~Anthans