"Dicky Socks"

[mamatware]

 So I have spent the last 2 days, and will spend tommorow doing the same thing volunteering with different groups at a charity PGA golf tour event happening here in town.  How could I not volunteer for it????  I mean out of the 20 charities on the list that this benefits, Kenny and Robby have benefited from or will benefit from them in the future probably 1/3 of the list.  I have been directing parking traffic.  It is actually fun...it's more like a bunch of grown ups playing with the walkie-talkies than work.  It's been a blast, and I'm doing it again tommorow.  But even with all of that going on, we still have to get ready for school to start-only 11 days left :)  We finally got the "general" school supply list in the mail this week.  So I had to take Kenny to fill in the blanks of what we didn't already have.  Started at Target....got all but 2 things there, then headed down the road to Walmart, found 1 thing there.  Then finally found the elusive zipper pencil pouch specifically 7 1/2 inches by 10 1'2 inches at Kmart.  While in Kmart, my cell phone rings.  It's Tim asking me if I can buy him more socks.  The man goes through socks like they are toilet paper!!!!!!  Seriously, it's obnoxious, I have to man new socks at least once a month.  I buy the cheapos...because I have tried the more expensive ones, and they don't last any longer than the cheapos.  But today at Kmart I saw Dickies Brand Work Socks.  I had never seen those before the package claims they are more durable than "normal" socks...and guess what they even had them in "shoe size 15 and larger".  So I decided to try those.  Remember I had Kenny back to school shopping. 

Kenny "What kind of socks are those?"

  I told him "Dickies". 

"Why does daddy need new dicky socks?" 

Me= "Because he already destroyed the new socks I bought him last month." 

"But mom why does he need dicky socks??" 

Me-"Enough about the socks Kenny, no more about the socks, one more word about the socks and you will not swim when we get home!" 

"Why can't I talk about the socks?"

Me-"Because I said so."

Kenny is one of those loud children, the kind that did not come equiped with an "inside voice" so people 2-3 aisles away from us can hear this conversation, and are laughing.....Thank GOD Kenny didn't realize they were laughing at him....or their would have been no stopping the "dicky socks" talk from him!!!!  However, he did tell the cashier while we were checking out "the dicky socks are for daddy."  She looked at me with the look that only mother can give another, and smiled and told me "sorry mam, but we out of the mouth zippers."  I really needed that at that moment. 

One thing that I have sadly learned having 3 young one and 3 older ones....is that the incidents of "dicky socks" do decrease with age, however, they never completely go away, but the severity of incidents does get worse. 

[mamatware]

Aug. 14, 2009 at 11:27 PM

Thought I should add, Kenny in no way was thinking about what body part the socks go on....however the people laughing were.

(Original Poster)

[simplysarah77]

Aug. 14, 2009 at 11:39 PM

LMAO

[gammasally]

Aug. 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM

Lol great post and since you added that additional comment to your original post I now have a mental image of a male body part no longer shivering with being cold because your guy now has his Dickie Socks. lol.  So funny.

[willysmama]

Aug. 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM

lol. my husband goes through socks like your husband. the brand you bought only last a week longer for my husband. but my dad wears them all the time at his work and has only had to buy them 2 times in the last year. and he is pretty hard on his socks too.