Put a Sock In It!

Put a Sock In It! (A ShinySpeak classic from my jokelist; Episode 124, 6/14/02)
Written by David M. Muench

Have any of you done something embarrassing and tried to "play it off," like jogging after tripping over a curb, or pretend to be rubbing your nose when somebody catches you "diggin' for fool's gold?"

Soo I was at Blockbuster Video the other day looking for a couple of flicks to watch (Really? Movies?  At a Blockbuster?).  I had walked around for five minutes when stepped back on something. I looked down at my foot to see what exactly I was stepping on and was puzzled to see some black cloth lump under my foot. It didn't help my bewilderment when I saw that this black thing seemed to be coming out of the leg of my pants.
With mounting horror I knew what had happened to my missing black sock. It was attempting to abandon my pants. I don't know why I was so mortified about a sock coming out of my pants. I've had fabric softener sheets appear out of my pant leg like a cheap magician many times. Maybe I didn't want anybody to think I was, um, "enhancing the package." No, no I wasn't.

So I casually swept my foot over the sock and just stood there, pretending to be extremely interested in a DVD of which I don't even remember the name.
Fortunately the store wasn't too busy, and when nobody was looking I reached down casually and pulled the damn thing out of my pant leg and shoved it in my pocket. It's amazing how much damage could be done to your Cool Factor when you have a black sock hanging out of your pants.

Damn that static cling.