the burden of socks.

there's nothing that drive me more crazy than tall socks in summer. but the problem with short socks, like tennis socks, is that as a result of one season of wear the elastic around the ankles wears out and you end up spending the day walking with your feet awkwardly curled inside your shoes, in an usually vain attempt to prevent the socks from scrunching up around your toes. maybe this problem could be avoided if i purchased higher quality socks but this seems to be a pointless course of action seeing how easily socks disappear. as the summer passes, and the subtle frusturation of the socks around the toes situation outweighs my stubborness i will buy new socks, but by this point it's usually july or august and heading into fall, when short socks are no longer a necessity and that one season of wear that can be extracted from kmart quality foot underwear passes during the time when they are most un-needed, impractical even, because (let's be honest here) who really does their laundry until they run out of socks and/or underwear? by the time next summer comes around, it's the worn elastic, bunching around toes routine and the cycle begins all over again...