#998 Wet socks

There's a million ways to get stuck in this slightly annoying predicament here. However, when it comes down to it, there is only one way to solve the problem and that solution is to peel off your freshly ruined socks.

But let's be realistic here, you can't just take off your socks whenever and wherever you want. According to social norms, it's not acceptable to take off your shoes and socks whenever the need strikes you; it's like masturbating on an airplane, it's just frowned upon. If it were deemed "normal," we'd see slightly annoyed people in all sorts of places taking off their shoes and socks just to put on their now dampened shoes all over again. Busses, offices, sidewalks and dry spots on the ground would become safe havens for everyone's woeful feet. Instead of finding any sort of safe haven, we often just walk around with that familiar squish of water sopping in and out of our socks, just enough to ruin and smell up the shoes we actually care about. Even after we finally get those grimy socks off, are we rewarded? Rarely. We now face the problem of smelly feet, smelly shoes, blisters from sockless shoe-wearing, and probably a few STDs.

It's just slightly annoying.