Short Story

Sock It To Me

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Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge is once again
challenging us to write a Six Sentence Story
using the word “ace”. This is my story.

The other night as I was getting undressed and ready for bed, I pulled off my sock and saw something on the sole that looked like a bit of fuzz or a piece of string but upon closer inspection I realized it was something imprinted on the bottom of the sock itself; since I can’t see a thing without my glasses, I thought it was the letter A for the company name which is Ace USA but I soon found out it was the letter L, obviously for LEFT.  

“What are the odds!” I declared to myself, rather tickled by the fact that I put the LEFT sock on my left foot without even checking the bottom of the sock, but when I took off the other sock, fully expecting to see the letter R indicating the RIGHT sock, I was confounded when I saw another L! 

“Just my luck” I again proclaimed to myself, somewhat annoyed that I would be the one to get a defective pair of socks, with two LEFT socks and no RIGHT sock! 

I promised myself that in the morning I would call Ace USA and encourage them to correct their oversight by sending me two RIGHT socks, one as a mate for one of the LEFT socks and the other as a mate for the other LEFT sock, leaving me with two perfectly functioning pairs of socks. 

The next morning I called Ace USA, explained my problem to Eleanor in customer services and requested two RIGHT socks to match my two LEFT socks; well, I’m sure you can imagine what a good laugh I had when Eleanor sweetly explained that the L on the bottom of my socks did not stand for LEFT but rather for LARGE.

Now I find myself rethinking that box in the front closet full of defective mittens.

NAR©2024

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50 thoughts on “Sock It To Me”

  4. lol

    why would they put the size on the bottom?!?! I mean, you get it on, you walk away…

    unless it was your morning for Taraksvasana*

    *thank you**

    ** for the prompt/excuse/permission to spend time wandering the biggest used-books/magazine store that is the internet… I got the image of your protagonist trying to see the soles of her socks while standing and, naturally that sent me off on a search of yoga …I’m proud to say I spent only twice as long reading the search results than I did typing my response lol

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    1. HAHAHA!! In my defense, it was late, the room was dimly lit, I’d already removed my glasses and I was tired. But when I realized my mistake, I was roaring with laughter at the ridiculousness of it all and my husband said “You need to write a story about this”, so I did. There was no phone call to customer service in the morning; I just threw that in.

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