What a terrible idea!<\/em><\/p>\nCan you imagine the horror? Every month they send you a completely different pair of socks. Instead of your socks being universally interchangeable, you now have to carefully match each heinously loud pattern with its equally heinous mate. Which you can’t do, because one sock will always go missing! <\/p>\n
Every year I get a bag of a dozen white socks. They’re all identical and I don’t need to make any special effort to make them match. A year later, attrition has reduced their numbers. Some have holes. Some have vanished into the sock void inside the washing machine. Some have begun to unravel at the top. The rest are still in serviceable condition, but aren’t enough to carry me through the week. Which means I need to buy more. <\/p>\n
But when I go to the store, I discover I can’t just buy another bag of the same socks. Even if I get the exact same brand in the exact same style, they will have pointlessly changed the design. They’re a different length, a different thickness, they have a different ankle angle, and employ a different color pattern. One year they add a strip of color across the toes and the next year they drop it again. <\/p>\n
Even if I don’t care about looks (I don’t actually care about looks) I can’t mix the new with the old because the socks will feel different on my feet. That will drive me crazy. I’ll spend all day thinking the left sock is falling down, then tug on it to realize it’s already at full mast.<\/p>\n
So every year I have to add a new sock style to my sock drawer, which increases the amount of sock-sorting I must engage in. I could fix this by throwing away the old when I get the new, but that means throwing away a handful of perfectly good socks. If just one manufacturer would simply stop messing with the gorram designs<\/strong> they would gain instant lifetime brand loyalty from me. But no. Every year I have to play sock roulette. <\/p>\nA sock subscription is an invitation to spend extra money in order to make this problem twelve times worse<\/em>. I hate the very idea of this service. I hate that such a thing exists in the same universe as I do. If I had to choose between this spam or porno spam on my site, I’d rather allow the porn. At least porn isn’t going to fill the world with frustration and waste in the form of endless mismatched socks. <\/p>\nI think maybe I strayed off-topic there for a minute. The point is, spammers are awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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