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Obsessive Compulsive
Posted by Fazackerly on 23 March 2010 - 10:49am.
A while ago my GLW bought me selection of socks from Marks and Spencer. Usually very helpful but not this time. BIG MISTAKE. The socks all have the day of the week printed or embroidered on the bottom. I immediately knew when I received them (although I tried to appear grateful) that I would get up on some future tuesday, and find only one pair of socks left in the drawer, and it would be the saturday ones.
What is an obsessive compulsive person supposed to do?
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Stay in bed until Saturday
Even worse
What happens when you wear a hole in one Tuesday and one Friday? Do you throw out the two perfectly good remaining socks, which are indistinguishable to an outside observer, or suck up your OCD and mix'n'match days?
This is why I always by 2 or 3 pairs of identical socks.
I used to only have blue socks
but have now added black to my repertoire
makes finding a "pair" much easier
err...
If all your socks are black then surely any two are a pair?
Surely the best approach
...would have been to stick to one colour in order to simplify the pairing process? Adding black to blue? Surely that is just asking for trouble?
Yes, one colour only was failsafe
two colours does increase the risk, but I cope, just
yes but are you sure that they're really black
or maybe just very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue...
But...
Don't ever get black socks from a normal shop, they'll shaft you every time.
My god, you have my sympathies.
The FPO did the same for me. The other day I had to wear my Wednesday socks on Sunday, and nearly had a coronary.
Thanks, it is good to feel that I am not alone.
We must remember there are others in the world who suffer more than we do. For example, just the other week I noted here on this website that there are people who still have tickets for gigs they went to over 30 years ago! Where on earth do they put all of this stuff?
Given that I just spent a weekend...
...doing a mammoth clear-out, and I'm not even a hoarder, I can only assume that they have very big, or very messy, houses.
I have two sets of days of the week socks
but one set is in French, the other in English (I live in Spain). I was gifted both sets and now have to recite the days of the week in French to work out what I'm "allowed" to wear.
Is it permissible to mix languages if it's the same day?
It is stretching the rules a bit
But I think it might just be permissable.
Only...
...when travelling between the two countries.
Dark day
Get dressed in the dark and sped the day in blissful ignorance!
This whole debate is moot
White goods will have the last say on this.
Naive fool, believing that your socks will remain as pairs when the washing machine will avail itself of one half of any pair as soon as possible. And if you should manage to get past the washing machine the tumble dryer - the Pied Piper of hosiery - will leave at least one foot a widower.
Everyday socks
I've taught several kids with autism whose parents dress them in days-of-the-week socks, hoping it will help them to organise themselves and develop independence. Of course, the stress caused when one sock inevitably goes missing makes it all far more trouble than it's worth.
Have you thought about
divorce? The GLW is clearly trying to undermine your mental equilibrium.
Confused.
What pair would one wear at Midnight? You go out on Friday night stay out past Midnight and your feet have travelled back in time!This kind of cavalier meddling with the natural order of things could have catastrophic,unknown ramifications.I'm going to put a brown paper bag with Tuesday written on it with Green crayon over my head and worry,all alone in a nice safe corner.
You are all worthless and weak
Indulge your inner bohemian by deliberately wearing different days. F*ck 'em, eh!
Just do what I do
Buy identical pairs of socks
Don't people with really bad
OCD prefer CDO as it's more alphabetical (sorry it's doing the rounds)
My Cat
has OCD........seriously....
My cat
has COD
...if there's no HADDOCK :-)
Maybe
it's dyslexia that's the problem and not OCD!
I take the opposite perspective
I select a pair at random, knowing full well that 98% of the time, I will be earing the wrong day, but when I DO have the right pair on the right day, I know that Today is going ot be a good day. Last Wednesday was a rare treat, when just such an event took place. Great, it was...
So THAT'S what Ver Cube was singing about
Lightweights the lot of you.
Only yesterday my left foot was wearing tomorrow and my right foot was early next week. Spit in the eye of conformism, stymie your tumble dryer, and mock the washing machine; liberate your pairs now.
Socks.
How straight can you be? Liberate your feet and feel the air between your toes.
F*ck the system, man. . .
Me, I'm a sock anarchist and I deliberately mix socks up. I can't tell you the illicit thrill I get from moving through polite society with 'Tuesday' on my left foot and 'Thursday' on my right. The sheer (aha!) satisfaction of knowing nobody is aware of the hosiery craziness that is passing unobserved just two feet (heh!) away from them is quite delicious. Sometimes I go for the blue socks with the pink and turquoise toe-and-heel on one and the red-and-green on the other. At the end of the day I rush home and then slam the door behind me, breathless with excitement at not being discovered again. You sock obsessives are just weird.
Rock and Roll!
Sock it to me...
I posit that Woolly buys his socks at M&S.
About once a year or so, I empty my sock drawer into the bin and buy a dozen pairs of M&S plain black cotton socks (not in that order usually).
This time, the sock racks were laden with black socks with stripy heel/toes in fetching colour combinations. They looked so jolly I couldn't resist and am now left with a draw full of socks which require pairing after washing.
Got me bang to rights, stimpy. . .
I default on to M&S for socks and underpants because it was hard-wired into me as a lad by my mother.
So indoctrinated into the M&S child clothing-by-age measurement system was I that I once apparently asked if my grandfather's underpants had 'To fit age 81-83' on the label.
Bless.
Paper Underpants
Sorry. It just reminds me of a Scaffold song (b-side) of a man going into a shop to buy paper underpants, originally sold in packs of 10.
"Why don't you sell them in packs of 7?
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday..."
Second man comes in shop (John Gorman)
"Packs of 7! I want them in packs of 12.
January, February, March..."
I wear Crew socks.
Nice socks. Comfy socks.
But I have to wear them with the Crew logo on the inside leg side.
They only print them with the logo one one side.
So my big toe always goes through them in the same place on both feet. The socks only last half as long.
Cunning, cunning bastards. I call it exploitation.
I think you should
wear the socks for the day of the week you WANT it to be. That way, you can just never go to work again and spend all day in the pub and blame it on your socks.
I am a genius.
Only in England
And the Lord spake unto Moses and said, "let the people wear socks".
"Socks?" Said Moses, "what are they O Lord?"
"They are a sort of garment that you can wear underneath your sandals. They'll stop the chaffing as you continue your journey across the sands"
"You mean like Englishmen do when on holiday?" asked Moses
"Yes that's the kind of thing."
"But we'll look stupid! How could we possibly enter the promised land looking like we took a detour via Matalan?"
"But I've already set up a nice little store. You can buy a special pack that has a pair for every day of the week. I've even labelled them, including an extra special design for the Sabbath."
"They wont like it Lord, I'm telling you."
"Well if they wont wear the socks, there'll be a price to pay. I've told you, we need ten."
"Oh go on then, bring the adultery one back in."