Friday Fritter Poll: How do you put on shoes and socks?

A Daily Poll ^ | June 26, 2009 | Dave Miller (tenger)

[tdscpa]

OK.

1. Take about 4 aspirin.
2. Wait about an hour, then shuffle over and get a pair of socks out of the drawer, and the pair of shoes you want to wear out of the closet.
3. Find a comfortable, low chair, with a footstool or hassock close.
4. Rest a bit, then lunge down and grab a foot and pull it up and rest it on top of the hassock. Reach down and work the sock onto the foot you can reach.
5. While it is up there, reach down and grab the shoe that fits that foot and work it over the sock you just installed.
6. After a short breather, push the shod foot to the floor, and as soon as you feel able, try to reach the other foot and pull it up and repeat steps 4 and 5 above for the other foot.
7. If after step 6 you find you have a second shoe that does not match the first one, you may want to drop to the floor, take a nap, and forget about doing whatever it was that made you decide to get dressed today in the first place.

[tdscpa]

If the hardest part of putting shoes on is getting your foot up to where you can do something with it, I recommend finishing the operation one foot at a time.

I'm guessing you are too young to imagine difficulty in reaching a foot.

I used to be that way, also.

(Kansas Guy)

[tenger]

And I apologize. Mrs. Tenger looked at the poll question and before thinking clearly clicked the sock sho, sock shoe button first. I am so embarrassed. I cannot erase what she’s done, so here’s hoping that twenty or thirty will cancel out that vote. I will not let that happen again.

[Migraine]

Let me guess.... US ARMY. PBI, Poor Bloody Infantry.

Dead-on! A trick I learned at Ft. Riley KS and have not forgotten.

[Migraine]

(never tried the motor oil, though) :)