BAD, BAD SOCKS!

 Bought a cheap bundle of nice-looking socks from the supermarket, to add to the veggies, bread, cheese, etc.

I always buy the biggest socks I can find. Despite having tiny stick-legs all socks seem to cut-off circulation to the feet: weird.

How do all those huge blokes cope with tourniquet-socks?

Anyway, as I suspected, though the socks were much longer than my actual feet, the elasticated tops were finger-thickness stranglers.

Equally impossible, the knit was fair-isle! So, what’s wrong with that, you say?

Well. The nice pattern on the outside was constructed with myriad loops of wool on the inside. So, try getting your toe-nails through that maze of giant Velcro! Ha! Simply impossible! The socks seemed unwearable.

Never reject a bad bargain: fix it.

And I did. First, cut the strangler tops off. Good; space now to get my foot in. Second, turn them inside-out. Ha, now the impossible loops are on the outside! Wearable, cosy socks, and cheap.

Of course that’s WHY they were cheap!