After the tick-tick of the worn time wrist watch was heaved out the drawer, the Sock Drawer resumed it
general pace and rhythm. Socks left, were
worn, sent to the dreaded Laundry Land, and hopefully returned.
Gossip was still
the primary form of entertainment. The
tick-tick had provided a brief break bringing Socks to near unraveling
point. Now, Sock residents resumed chattering about lint, static, and thread snapping.
But what about the
Strangers? The unique and curious
objects that had been swept off the Land of Dresser Top, and landed in the Sock
Drawer? Gossip and speculation was the
big topic among the resident socks.
The shabby-chic
striped nylon/spandex (who managed to stay, despite an obvious hole in the
cuff) was the most vitriolic about them.
She shook the hole at the Strangers, bitching in her peculiar way…And look!
Look at the shoddy bright green…thing!..
The other sassy
socks of poly/nylon/spandex genre joined with Shabby Sock. The atmosphere was rife with lint and
crackling. A riot was building, and in a
land of static could set off a storm of electric charge.
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Then Wise Argyle
stepped in and stopped them with the boldness of his diamond woven in
brown/blue/tan woolen and spandex. He
remembered the Electric Charge Storm from the last riot, the one when the new
Christmas socks arrived. Oh, no.
But what about the Strangers?? Where were they and what were they doing while
the riot wound down?
i liked to make up silly stories like this when I was a child. But, with the wisdom of a child, perhaps I was writing non fiction? Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteMy imagination then was full of ideas. Now I have more ideas!
DeleteMy sock drawer is dull and quiet, the socks never get up to any mischief. Not while I'm around anyway and they are always in their places.
ReplyDeleteI need to clean that drawer out.
DeleteMaybe when those socks start all the nasty chatter, they should be told to 'put a sock in it'! This was an entertaining story, Susan. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteExcellent! I love this.
DeleteYou have to watch those socks every minute.
ReplyDeleteI emptied my sock drawer. Very few matched socks, but lots of other Strangers.
DeleteVery amusing. I was awaiting the arrival of Leprechaun socks....
ReplyDeleteMaybe next spring?
DeleteA sock drawer riot... that's out of the drawer thinking...
ReplyDeleteYou never know. I cleaned out one drawer yesterday, and felt a little uneasy.
DeleteI love it! So whimsical and clever!!
ReplyDeleteI have always wondered if I should write one with inter-sock marriages?
DeleteSome people like to hook up strangers for the day.
ReplyDeleteSocks are fickle like that.
DeleteAnd how many returned from Laundry Land alone? I wonder if those were gossiped about, also.
ReplyDeleteThey would absolutely be on the gossip list. How many returned? Not known.
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