On the way to work this morning and I couldn't stop staring at the guy sitting opposite me in the bus. No, not because he was drop-dead good-looking or neither was he some celebrity or lookalike. A young man, probably in his late twenties, in the usual working attire a nicely ironed shirt, black pants, decent belt, black Hush Puppies shoes. See what's missing? As we would all have realised how our pants slightly rides up when we sit down, which shows the all important piece of clothing most of us conveniently forget about. Yes, it is the humble pair of socks that hides under our pants most of the time, keeping our feet somewhat dry and hygienic. Back to what I saw, I noticed the exposed legs and the first I thought was "Where's his socks?" So being the usual curious me, I continued to stare at his shoes. "Oh, ankle socks. But why ankle socks with office wear? Damn off la." Those were my exact thoughts. Then I couldn't help but try to sense any tinge of embarrassment from him about wearing the wrong kind of socks. Maybe his longer socks couldn't dry in time from the past weekend which had been raining. Maybe his dog chewed up his sock while he was wearing them in the morning. But sadly in my half hour bus ride I didn't. So the eye sore was too much for me to bear so I decided to look away. But being the chronically judgmental me, I started noticing everyone's socks. Phew. Only 1 case today.
I think I'm mental.
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