If there was a pie chart of my life, I reckon football socks would be the biggest slice

[Flamingoose]

Looking for football socks.
Finding the wrong football socks.
Trying to understand why these football socks won't do.
Why do we even have these football socks?
Failing to understand the difference between football socks and hockey socks.
Pointing out through gritted teeth that one hour before a match is not the correct time to be looking for football socks.
Buying more football socks to solve the problem.
Buying brightly coloured football socks for training so they'll be easier to keep track of.
Asking through gritted teeth why match socks were worn to training.
Idly wondering how it is possible to spend 70% of the family income on football socks and still only have one too-small orange hockey sock available to share between two children on Saturday morning.

I empathise 😂

Do yours have those smaller shin pads with the teeny tiny bit of mesh fabric which is worn as a sleeve under the main sock and into which you tuck the shin pad.
That just doubles the fun as then you have to find both the socks and the sleeve things and they can't possibly both be in the same place!

How are football socks so difficult to pull on a 7 year old? They need a zipper up the back. He has so much fabric around his toes, we’ve had to go up a shoe size! You have my sympathy.

To the best of my recollection, I have never handled a football sock. Amazing how different the trivial things that take up our time can be. My annoying pie chart slice would be my husband's fucking reading glasses which he loses on average twice a day.

Now mine are left home and there is a whole drawer of football socks and there never was a matching pair when we needed them. Wish you were next door and l would happily give you a drawer full of matching football socks.

Yep!
Me: We needed to leave 5 minutes ago.
10: But they're really hard to get on!
[Rolls around on the floor with one leg in the air, endless sock waving around like an Olympic ribbon gymnast]

My family keep threatening to get me a glasses chain so I don't lose them.

Somehow the image of a whole drawer of peacefully matched football socks is comforting.

My family keep threatening to get me a glasses chain so I don't lose them.

He's got his distance glasses on a cord so unfortunately that wouldn't work as two cords round his neck would get tangled. So I'm resigned to a fun game of 'hunt the glasses' usually when we are about to go out somewhere and he realises at the last minute that he might need them.