Did I miss something here? Am I supposed to be buying knitting needles, yarns and patterns and crazily learning to knit before March 2007? Is Hanes going to quit mass producing socks?
Quote from site FAQ… “It sounds like fun but I really don’t have a lot of sock knitting experience. We’ve got you covered. We are arranging the knitters so that those less experienced won’t meet the experts until the Final Four. by then everyone will be in their groove and ready to take on the world. “
They even have brackets for the competitors… sheesh! I know how a girl feels about March Madness. I, too, have been thoroughly confused by this male ritual. My BF never(well maybe not never BUT rarely if ever) watches basketball during any other time except the playoffs. He doesn’t follow the teams nor does he own a t-shirt, mug, socks, sweatshirt or team blanket that I know of. Yet, every March he becomes this raving lunatic, reading the sports pages, filling out brackets, calling me at work to print 20 more blank bracket sheets so he can work out different win-scenarios, eating take-out or tv dinners, glued to the tv and screaming like he personally owns the team… TOTALLY and COMPLETELY ignoring me except for the “huny, sweety, will you grab me a beer on your way back?”
Maybe the ladies who are Sock Madness have taken up this sock knitting thing to fill the companionship void left by the total obliviousness of their male counterparts. I, for one, will hit him where it hurts.
“huny, sweety, baby… I promise I will leave you alone and not beg you to turn the channel while you’re watching the Pacemakers and Spurs, if you’ll give me a little money to go shopping.”
$25… 50… 100… doesn’t matter to me. I was going shopping anyway just to get away from the stupid shit. Now I have his money to spend too! Momma gonna get a new pair of shoes AND a purse!
Anyway.. back to the sock madness… I am in a bit of a decision quandry… I just can’t decide if this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of or something I can see myself doing just so I can sit on the couch beside the man while he is watching the game and yell at him…
“DAMMIT!! Quit jumping on the fuckin’ couch! You made me drop a stitch on that last round! “
November 3, 2006 at 5:05 pm |
Yeah, us knitters are a crazy bunch, aren’t we? We had Knitting Olympics this year – and if you think that’s crazy, there were more knitting Olympicians than real Olympians. We also are in the middle of a Sock War where you have to kill or be killed….