10 Things You Didn't Know About Socks !
The Human foot is an absolutely amazing "feat" of engineering , design and beauty ! It contains 26 bones, 33 joints, 250,000 sweat glands and over 100 muscles , tendons and ligaments. It supports your whole body weight , propels you at different speeds, trajectories and distances and is delightfully ticklish as a bonus.
This particular foot is my left foot, a real beauty isn't it ?
Anyway, you have two of these amazing devices at the bottom of your legs doing an all round great job for you and how do you protect them ?
You buy the cheapest pack of 3,5 or 12 cotton socks that you can find on eBay and wonder then why you have hot, tired and irritable feet. You are happy to spend €100 on your trainers, shoes, boots but the actual garment that is closest to your feet you try and get away with as chaeap an item as possible. STOP !
To try and dissuade you from this grevious crime here are a 10 facts that you didn't know about socks :
1. Socks got their name from Roman comic actors who wore light garments on their feet called "Soccus".
2. Your feet produce almost half a litre of sweat per day. You'd be sloshing around in your own sweat if it wasn't for fantastic socks.
3. Albert Einstein refused to wear socks. ( He also smoked )
4. In Indiana a male driver over the age of 18 can be arrested for indecency if a female passenger in his car is not wearing socks !
5. Smelly socks are now considered to be a breaktrough in the fight against the spread of malaria in Africa. Smelly socks are placed in containers which attract and kill mosquitoes.
6. The knitting machine was invented in 1589 by the Reverend William Lee who was so infuruiated by the constant clacking of his wife's knitting needles as she knitted socks and by the length of time that she spent knitting that he sought a mechanical , rather than a spiritual, solution.
7. The average household loses approximately €80 worth of socks each year.
8. In Cavan town post office there is a special public notice board where you can offer a small reward for the return of a missing sock.
9. One hundred and fifty million packs of socks are sold each year in the US.
10. Single plain black socks are more likely to go missing than any other colour or patterened sock.
There you go , only one of the above facts is untrue and will be the answer to this weeks quiz.
Here at Brix , Monaghan's fourth largest workwear store,we offer 15 different types of stocks. Among the better ones is the A62 All Season sock from Carhartt it is reinforced in all of the stress areas and combed for extra comfort.
Your 10 little toes deserve these socks and I will do my best to acquaint them.
For a chance to win one of 25 packs of A62 Carhartt socks answer these two simple questions :
1. Which of my 10 sock facts was wrong and why ?
2. How much are the Carhartt A62 socks on Brix ?
Cheers,
Paul
P.S. Today I am listening to Duck Sauce- Barbara Streisand just to annoy John ( seems to be working well )
P.P.S Having listened to that song it reminded me of an old Stars on 45 track which introduced me to the Beatles, donkeys years ago...
P.P.S Winner of last weeks Carharrt jacket was Andrew Lloyd