Inspired by the bloke with the bad bottle of Leo, I'd like to ask for some advice about my own particular problem:

I have a hole in one of my socks. Should I get it darned or should I just buy a new pair?

What would you do?

This really does depend on a number of factors such as:

• Size of hole
  
• Location of hole
  
• Thickness of material
  
• Type of material used
  
• Ethnic origin of wearer
  
• Day of the week
  

Please, please, please, if you are going to ask for assistance from the experts on this forum, be more specific about the problem.

Did you buy these socks at a local 'Mom and Pop shop' or Robinsons or the like ? Makes a difference in possible ways to resolve the problem.

Go commando.

Make a hole in the other one so you have a matching pair.

Make a hole in the other one so you have a matching pair.

And better ventilation.

"I have a hole in one of my socks. Should I get it darned or should I just buy a new pair?"

It depends entirely on the purchase price (quality) of the socks and the cost of getting them darned. Repairs are only worthwhile when purchase costs are high and labour costs are low. In the West this is no longer the case and so we have a disposable society where hardly anything gets repaired. Here that shouldn't be the case.

Did you buy these socks at a local 'Mom and Pop shop' or Robinsons or the like ? Makes a difference in possible ways to resolve the problem.

The possibility of hand-me-downs is eminent.

This really does depend on a number of factors such as:

• Size of hole
  
• Location of hole
  
• Thickness of material
  
• Type of material used
  
• Ethnic origin of wearer
  
• Day of the week
  

Please, please, please, if you are going to ask for assistance from the experts on this forum, be more specific about the problem.

Did you return the fully completed warranty card for the socks within 7 days of purchase, and do you have a receipt from the post office to prove that you posted the warranty card?

This really does depend on a number of factors such as:

• Size of hole
  
• Location of hole
  
• Thickness of material
  
• Type of material used
  
• Ethnic origin of wearer
  
• Day of the week
  

Please, please, please, if you are going to ask for assistance from the experts on this forum, be more specific about the problem.

Thinking of American Pie the purpose of the sock might be relevant as well..

If you did not have a hole in your socks you would not be able to put them on! In trying for action on this, you need to concentrate on the manufacturing error of the other sock whose lack of hole makes it use as a sock not fit for purpose.

This is just another another example of what's wrong with this country. When I lived in the UK my socks never had holes.

This having a hole in the sock could easily lead to an unwanted pregnancy. Get it fixed immediately !!!

I blame the Thais. They're idiots, and everyone is against me, and it was never like this in my own country, and I feel really really resentful that some people in Thailand are doing better than me, and some of them are locals, the dam_n cheek, but it's ok because I'm white so I am innately superior to them.

Etc etc. Ad nauseum.

Just cut off one of your feet.

You can't beat lateral thinking, eh?

Just cut off one of your feet.

You can't beat lateral thinking, eh?

The OP is obviously a Cheap Charlie so it's much more cost effective for him to just cut off the toe that is sticking out of the hole.

Go native, no socks....problem solved!

Assume you got the hole here, therefore its a Thai hole , in my view you only have two choices.

1, Look for a shop that sells single socks.

2, If you really don't like it the way the Thais have made a hole in your sock...

Go back to your own country .

Let your foot wear a holed sock, and if it really loves you, it will not walk away.

This really does depend on a number of factors such as:

• Size of hole
  
• Location of hole
  
• Thickness of material
  
• Type of material used
  
• Ethnic origin of wearer
  
• Day of the week
  

Please, please, please, if you are going to ask for assistance from the experts on this forum, be more specific about the problem.

Did you return the fully completed warranty card for the socks within 7 days of purchase, and do you have a receipt from the post office to prove that you posted the warranty card?

Tesco has a 7 day guaranty. just return them, and get a new pair.

Edited January 26, 201214 yr by Semper

If the hole happened in Thailand, it is very nearly always a case of anti-foreigner sentiment.

If it happened back home, then it is of course the fault of the immigrants (paki's mainly, but also those eastern europeans) who do nothing but leech of the system.

Did you get these socks from a vendor outside a beer bar? If so, it just shows the sort of person you are. Another typical 'Thailand sock' sob story. When will people like you realise? There are plenty of good quality, hard wearing socks out there but you go for the cheapest and easiest and then come whining here when it all goes ti_ts up! You deserve everything you get, IMHO.

Edited January 26, 201214 yr by SimonD

Socks. Who use them in Thailand?

If the hole happened in Thailand, it is very nearly always a case of anti-foreigner sentiment.

If it happened back home, then it is of course the fault of the immigrants (paki's mainly, but also those eastern europeans) who do nothing but leech of the system.

Now we're getting somewhere, maybe it was the leech that bit into the sock thereby making a hole.

This thread is going downhill, we've already had references to "unwanted pregnancy" and "ti_ts up", do you guys read sex into everything !!

This is a serious topic.

Edit to say if the op is considering darning the hole...do not do it yourself...that would be working !!

Edited January 26, 201214 yr by terryq

this is a s(h)ocking story,and its propaly because you did not pay enough sin sot,(darn it) mentioned that word agian

An off toe-pick post about surgical stockings has been removed.

I was stopped by the BIB and had to pay 100 baht for having a hole in one of mine

Neither, keep wearing them until the hole is bigger than your foot, then insert in mouth ...

Neither, keep wearing them until the hole is bigger than your foot, then insert in mouth ...

put your foot in it there,

Find a way to blame it on the Yingluck administration.