What: Pair of new-looking grey outdoorsman/woman socks.Origin: Someone who knows that I'm the Queen Aunt of sock puppets.
How long kept: Probably about 6 weeks.
Why kept: I might make them into sock puppets. (They might be useful.)
Destination: I gave the grey socks to a homeless man at the corner of 77th and Lexington. The patterned black socks went to a man I often see in my lower Manhattan neighborhood.
Confession: These socks were perfectly good, the grey pair looked brand new, actually. I got them, along with the patterned black/navy pair (left), either from "M" or a yoga friend. When I pulled them out to look at them, thought they were too good to be made into a toy. Having noted that they don't sell socks at thrift stores (this, after checking out the stores in NY, Chicagoland, and Northern Minnesota for candidate materials for sock puppets) I decided that these would have a higher use, and started carrying them with me. When the nice man at 77th and Lex asked me if I would help him, I asked if the socks would be helpful. He said that they would be, and accepted them.
Win win, I guess...to the extent that it is at all okay that we have people sitting on corners asking for help. (These went on two different days: one blisteringly cold day, the black pair went to my lower Manhattan neighbor who routinely sits outside of a Starbucks. As I left the Starbucks, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald were singing "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm." Sigh.)
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