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Retired Engineer Bob

(759 posts)
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 04:47 PM Feb 2022

I'm sofa king livid

As if life isn’t difficult enough, another thing happened today that has set me off.

Bought some new socks the other day, got around to washing them this afternoon. It was a package of three pairs. After getting them mated up I noticed some had an “L” on them, others had an “R”. WTF is going on!!

I studied the problem for an hour or so, and realized the “L” “R” split was 50/50, a clue 🕵️?♀️.

Of course I went to the Internet for some research 🔬. After many exhaustive hours, the search parameter “deep state “L” “R” sock conspiracy” finally paid off. The frickkin things are supposedly unidirectional, one for the left foot, one for the right!!

To hell with that noise! I’m not a damned sheep 🐑. I am directionally challenged as it is. I was five years old before I managed to get the right shoe on the right foot 🦶. My driver’s Ed teacher put an “L” and “R” on the back of my hands with a permanent black marker, following a near miss where she told me to take a right and I made a left in front of an oncoming semi. That was a close call, but I digress.

Defiant me put two “Ls” on and went about my day, or at least tried to. I found myself walking in circles, and got blisters on my right foot. So now I have two dirty and one clean “Ls”, and three clean “Rs”. So after one day with three clean pairs only one pair was still usable.

In case you folks are thinking this is all made up, I have photos to prove it.



Those bastards at Nike will not think this is funny when they hear from my lawyer. I’m calling him tomorrow. That’s confusing, I’ll call him by his real name Jake, but will make the call 📞 first thing Monday morning.



Thanks for letting me rant, just had to get this off my chest.

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4. I am consoling myself
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 05:02 PM
Feb 2022

By buying expensive things on the Internet, to be paid for with the lawsuit proceeds. Found a nice round the world cruise 🚢, it’s going to set Nike back over $350,000 for the two of us.

wyn borkins

(1,109 posts)
3. Off Your Feet - Not Off Your Chest
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 05:01 PM
Feb 2022

I think they're rather cute
But would walk them no heed

And I wonder why all socks
Are not so lettered, indeed

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
7. And how come there are sox onna fox but never on lox? Thanks, I enjoy your poetic
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 05:31 PM
Feb 2022

response. Give us more!

wyn borkins

(1,109 posts)
8. Lox Be Salmon-Inna-Brine
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 05:53 PM
Feb 2022

Per chance no sox-on-lox
Because they ain't-got-feet

Don't need-no-sox
If'n lox ain't-got-feet

6. ARRRGGGH!!
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 05:26 PM
Feb 2022

I was wondering who kept calling at 3:00 am.

On top of everything else, now I need a new lawyer. I can’t handle the STRESS! Its driving me to drink 🍹.

Hubby says I should slow down on the purchases. But I really, really want that fur sink and electric dog petter.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,462 posts)
10. Dont feel bad about the right left thing
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 07:29 PM
Feb 2022

I have it bad, I have two tattoos on my hands .

One is an inverse pentagram for left hand path.

On my right hand is the alchemical symbol of black mercuric sulphide or brimstone for right hand path.

Never again will I be confused by left or right unless I'm turning a screw I dont know where the end is.

I do the lefty loosey righty tighty but my directional hands don't correspond to screwing screws out or in. So I turn it until the lines add up or decrease and continue turning it in or out. Sometimes I have to turn until it tightens or loosens.. but some screws take forever to feel a difference.

I do the best that I can.

Sometimes I am glad I cant drive,lol.

struggle4progress

(118,236 posts)
11. Today it's socks. Tomorrow, shoes and gloves.
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 03:31 AM
Feb 2022

Soon the bastids will be telling us which side of the road to drive on

Not Heidi

(1,282 posts)
12. And then there was the surgical resident who asked a nurse where were the right-handed gloves
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 03:55 AM
Feb 2022

She figured it out after noticing he wore a glove on his left hand

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