I need more socks.
What?
I need more socks.
Are you just out of socks?
No.
So how can you need more socks?
I mean it’s like ties, isn’t it?
It’s nothing like ties. First of all, they’re for your feet, but ignoring that difference, no one really sees them.
Of course they do!
You don’t wear socks with sandals do you? Dear lord, tell me you don’t.
I do not.
All right. So when you wear shoes how do people see your socks?
The gap. The… between your pants and your shoes, that gap? The sock gap.
You’ve named it.
The sock gap.
So you feel that the sock gap presents a special problem for you, fashion-wise?
Well, doesn’t it? I want, when I want an outfit to match and look good I have to wear the right socks.
This is why I wear boots. No sock gap.
So you are totally carefree when it comes to socks?
I truly am!
Well I’m not. I mean what if I’m wearing nice shoes?
Black socks.
But if the outfit is full of color! Brown shoes and brown slacks and black socks?
Perfectly acceptable.
No I think you might need brown socks in that case.
Well… all right.
and what if I’m wearing red shoes and…
You own red shoes? Not sneakers, but shoes? Dress shoes, in red?
Yeah.
Then you know what you should wear?
What?
Different shoes. Failing that, though, I’d go with some…
Black socks?
Exactly.
This is why you wear boots all the time.
Right now I couldn’t even tell you the color of my socks. They might not even match.
What if you go somewhere and have to take off your shoes? Then aren’t you worried?
Not in the least.
But…
Nope. Then I am with a friend of some sort. The odds of me having to show off my socks to someone who doesn’t already know me is so slim, I couldn’t care less. Let my friends see that I am uncaring toward socks! Let them!
You really feel no sock anxiety at all.
Not an ounce, I’m telling you.
That’s amazing.
No, you’ve got this backwards. It’s amazing that you care.
Hmph. I still need more socks.
If you say so, sockfreak.
I am not a sockfreak.
All right.
Thank you.
Sockfreak.
December 8th, 2009 on 5:41 am
Sockfreaks and dogbabies, gin and headbutts, this comic got it all doesn’t it?
December 8th, 2009 on 9:10 am
At the very least it has my apprent obsession with fake combined words.
December 8th, 2009 on 9:34 am
I am totally with Daniel on this one, all the way:D
December 8th, 2009 on 9:36 am
UT-oh! Are we drawing sock lines?
December 8th, 2009 on 9:51 am
Well, it’s important to enjoy the small things in life =)
December 8th, 2009 on 9:52 am
Like tiny pasties! Mmm.
December 8th, 2009 on 12:07 pm
I’m afraid I’m on the Mark side of the line.
But then I care because I love wearing funky socks, not because I have sock anxiety. I want people to go, “Oh my god are you wearing fuzzy purple socks? Those are awesome!” (Yes, I have had that happen.)
December 8th, 2009 on 12:08 pm
Well all right. I mean if you know people who honestly give a damn about the socks you wear and consider them awesome… there you are. Somewhere.
December 8th, 2009 on 12:55 pm
Tiny pasties, eh?
December 8th, 2009 on 12:56 pm
… pastries. Damn r key.
December 8th, 2009 on 1:15 pm
I’m totally with David, here. It’s plain white athletic socks for me, all the time. And anyway, my sock gap is covered by my jeans.
December 8th, 2009 on 1:19 pm
Even if you sit and were to cross your legs?
December 9th, 2009 on 10:08 am
if you cross your legs,and your jeans aren`t long enough to still cover most of your socks,or at least the sock gap,then you know you`re not wearing the right jeans!
December 9th, 2009 on 10:10 am
I’ll have to disagree, personally. Pants should not come to the floor. Shoes that aren’t hi-tops or boots, when you cross a leg, the pants shift up. It shows sock.
December 9th, 2009 on 10:59 am
I agree with APK there, Pants shouldn’t come to the floor. But even though mine don’t, I still don’t give a damn about my socks, they’re all black anyway:)
December 9th, 2009 on 11:00 am
What if you wear sneakers? Sneakers + black socks looks odd, no?
December 9th, 2009 on 11:03 am
Hmm, maybe, but I don’t wear sneakers:/ okay granted, When I say I don’t care about socks it doesn’t mean AT ALL(!) for example I wouldn’t wear pink socks (ever), or blue socks for a brown suit, I just think black goes for almost anything… Then again, most of my clothes are black, I’m kind of bland that way:P
December 9th, 2009 on 11:04 am
Hahah bland like Johnny Cash.
December 9th, 2009 on 11:06 am
haha, naw, then I’d look cool, that would totally destroy my image:D
December 9th, 2009 on 11:16 am
Show me some sock baby!
I am a sockgap anxiety sufferer. Big surprise there, right? To get past that, I often wear striped knee socks. They are fun and rarely match exactly what I am wearing. I can’t streak my hair at the day job. My knees have put an end to my public use of my hooker heel collection as named by a coworker. That leaves me socks. Loved this issue, Adam!