Socks and Sandals

I wore sandals to work today and after lunch I bought sneakers. After buying the sneakers, I put my sandals back on without taking off the socks I had worn to try on the sneakers.

I was going to write tonight about wearing socks and sandals together. I was poised to wax poetic about the epic tradeoff between unfathomable levels of foot bliss and the terrible stigma that society attaches to those who engage in this practice. I would weigh the pros and the cons of committing such a fashion faux pas while in search of simple comfort. And I would conclude in the end that Lynn would never let me get away with it.

But first I googled and I found that I am not at all alone in contemplating this ageless question:

• A healthy discussion courtesy of The Daily Ping in 2003.
• A word-order analysis that eventually relegates itself to rationalizing that dorkiness is cool.
• A condemnation of Czech men who practice this behavior
• And perhaps most entertainingly, instructions courtesy of Wing:
  1. Go to http://www.forceofgood.com.
  2. Click 'enter'
  3. Click 'do battle'
  4. Click 'choose your foe'
  5. Click the picture in row 2, column 3
  6. Click 'okay, go'
  7. Click 'do battle'

The debate rolls on without my help, it would seem, and yet the majority of the populous seem to fall squarely for fashion and against comfort. Yet tonight, Matt related a story to me of two women whom he overheard in a bar (I believe the word used to describe these women was 'hot') discussing how irresistibly attracted one of them was to men who can successfully pull off wearing socks with their sandals. I may be a novice at this, but that's enough justification for me to proclaim today proudly that I am a soxer!.