put a sock in it!
6:45 AM, I dash out of the house, and just before I jump on a boda, something tells me to take a look at my feet.
I realise I’m wearing two very different socks. As in socks clashing so blindly even a blind man would riot. I curse violently, rush back into the house, search frantically for at least one other sock to make a pair, and it slowly dawns on me that those are the only socks I have.
Somehow in the kavuuyo of shifting, I lost the other two sides.
I curse some more, then dash out and look for an open shop. I find a dude selling socks bright and early by the road-side, breathe a sigh of relief and hastily buy a pair, dash back into the house to change, only to realise the socks I’ve just bought are those silly things that stop at your heels. And to make it worse, my foot size is nowhere near average,
I run back out, and find the dude has vanished.
By this time, my language is exceptionally colourful.
I say screw it, jump on a boda with my two different socks, hoping no one looks at both of them, but with my tall frame, my pants stop at my shins when I sit on a boda.
So my socks are displayed in all their glory.
I grin like an idiot, braving the looks, until two microscopic kids in the back seat of a Prado start laughing at me. I was this >-< close to hurling down fire and brimstone on their shiny gap-toothed heads.
I got to office and mercifully mercifully mercifully there was a hawker. After much scrutiny, I finally buy a shiny new pair of socks and end my saga.
Until some fool at the office asked me if I was wearing socks. Mbu the socks looked so dark they thought it was my skin.
*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh*
December 15th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
SOCKS!!!!
December 15th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
SOCKS!!! as in…literally, no for real…socks!!!
dude you need to chill black socks, they just don’t compliment you mate, hahaha
December 15th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
teeheeheehee perhaps a mahogany brown is more to your advantage…
December 16th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
You cannot win them all.
December 16th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Haha.
Next time just slather vaseline on the place your socks should be .. Voila! Shiny socks!
I hate socks! I don’t have a single matching pair. Fortunately people who I work with aren’t bothered by my lousy dress sense.
December 16th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Hahahaha…I wish I had won socks on this one…hehe
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
lol
December 24th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
bambi the dark knight suffers!
as for tumwi, shiny socks! so special, you are!
January 25th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
shoot first, ask questions later