Socks and hairy legs just don’t go together. The hair provides a nearly frictionless surface for the socks to roll down to your ankles. Which is pretty damned annoying, and you think someone would get used to it after a few decades, but, on occasion, it calls attention to itself.<\/p>\n
Alas, neither going sockless nor shaving my legs is a reasonable alternative, so I’ll just have to bitch about it. Fortunately, I have this forum in which to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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