[Backinwellies]

We have a sock monkey given to us as a wedding present ....  made from flight socks from the flight to Tanzania .. by one of the team members who was with us on our build project.......... which was where we met.   

[henchard]

This thread reminds of when I worked in local government in Dorset. An old farmer came into the office and mentioned how he had been ripped off buying some cheap socks from a market stall. When he got home he found that they had no toes and that they were just tubes of material.

'But the b*gger didn't get me', he said, 'I tied the ends up with baler twine'.

[Penninehillbilly]

As with most things nowadays when I want something I cannot find it.

Thought that was just me, ie  I know it's there somewhere, saw it yesterday but where? 

This thread reminds of when I worked in local government in Dorset. An old farmer came into the office and mentioned how he had been ripped off buying some cheap socks from a market stall. When he got home he found that they had no toes and that they were just tubes of material.
'But the b*gger didn't get me', he said, 'I tied the ends up with baler twine'.

Ouch! My poor toes suffer enough! 

[Izzy]

I use a couple of 'beyond saving' football sox on my outside tap to keep it frost proof.

[bazzais]

Put them round your wrists when your sponging windows or walls up high to stop water running down your arms.  Put them round your wrists when out on the quad and stops a draught up ya arms.

Or just give them to anyone who fixes the equipment as rags.

[Lesley Silvester]

Reading back over these posts reminds me of the time I was invited into the home of an acquaintance for a coffee. She had two Shelties and I was playing with them with a bundle of what looked like rugs. As they became unravelled, I realised they were men's socks and she said they were her husband's and that the dogs preferred them to other toys.


Her husband was my bank manager and I could never discuss business accounts with him again without struggling to keep a straight face.