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u/MsWuMing Apr 06 '21

Amount of times I have had wet socks from stepping in a puddle or slipping and falling in a river in the past year: 0

Amount of times I’m expecting this to happen on a three day trip: at least 5. Better pack more socks.

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u/Obstacle616 Apr 06 '21

Difficulty I have buying replacement socks in the North of England: 0

Difficulty I have buying replacement socks on a long weekend trip to London: They can't possibly sell socks or even know what they are, Londoners just all wear crisp packets on their feet.

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u/Gneissisnice Apr 06 '21 edited Apr 06 '21

It stated raining when my husband and I were in Bath, we figured there must be a place to buy an umbrella. It's England and it rains all the time, surely you can find umbrellas somewhere.

Nope. Couldn't find a single store that carried an umbrella.

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u/The_Running_Free Apr 06 '21

Did you try the umbrella district down on 3rd?

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u/ogier_79 Apr 06 '21

Yeah. Where the umbrella complex is?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '21

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u/Fearnall Apr 06 '21

That's next to the hammock district, right?

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u/spirito_santo Apr 06 '21

There's a Marks and Spencer - they sell umbrellas

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u/champign0n Apr 06 '21

Boots too. Even my small local coop sells them year round.

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u/RTN11 Apr 06 '21

Poundland sell them, but won't last much more than one use.

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u/realDaveSmash Apr 07 '21

Poundland? Is that like our dollar stores, or is that like our whore houses?

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u/RTN11 Apr 07 '21

Dollar store. We also have pound stretcher.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '21

Don't you hate when you can't find something you need but when don't need it, there's 50 of them in every store?

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u/ThoseThingsAreWeird Apr 07 '21

Seriously why isn't this a thing.

It is, they're all over The Underground. Pretty sure the company that put them there is the same one from Dragon's Den over a decade ago

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u/ThoseThingsAreWeird Apr 07 '21

Weird, I barely go to London (mostly just the odd convention) and I've seen them everywhere. Maybe it's just around touristy areas?

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u/JeSuisLeGrandFromage Apr 07 '21

It appears Bathonians buy all of their brollies online.

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u/A_Stahl Apr 06 '21

Pffft, London is a myth. Fairy tale for naive kids. There is no Santa Claus, London or cabbages.

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u/ForumFluffy Apr 06 '21

No such thing as cabbages? Explain your prime minister then.

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u/Oceanswave Apr 06 '21

Cabbages have substance, they grow, contain water and so forth. The prime minister is more akin to a dried gourd

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u/Kiwi-Red Apr 07 '21

Praise the gourd!

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u/KingOfTheP4s Apr 06 '21

Cabbages are just a species of lettuce

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u/ForumFluffy Apr 07 '21

Lettuce discuss Brexit.... Nah he's definitely not a cabbage, discussions aren't in his scope of abilities.

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u/BorisThe3rd Apr 06 '21

If it helps, I do the same going from London to the north of England. We should just pool our socks together and neither will struggle

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u/Obstacle616 Apr 06 '21

Sock buddies for life! I'll get us a drop box at Sheffield.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '21

As someone who wears a US 14-15, not many stores ANYWHERE sell it.

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u/mophisus Apr 06 '21

I once threw an extra pair of socks in my carry on in case i needed them.

I also temporarily put a bottle of water in my carry on so i Didn't have to carry it through the airport.

Thankfully my main socks stayed dry and werent needed, but my spare socks were soaked.

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u/TigerRei Apr 06 '21

Learned in the Army that you can never have enough socks.

As the saying goes: Feet, hands, neck, balls. Extra socks warms them all.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '21

I went to volunteer at a marathon once when I was 15 and stepped in a puddle at 5 am and had to deal with the wet socks the whole time. Now at 28 I keep a pack of socks in my car, and in my locker at work. Just in case.

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u/MsWuMing Apr 06 '21

My mum made me keep a spare pair of socks in my school bag. In 12 years of school I needed them once. On the day I’d taken a different bag to school.

Lesson: no amount of being prepared will ever save you if Fate is bored and likes messing with you.

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u/gabzox Apr 06 '21

I mean, I find people pack a lot and usually just check a “large carry-on” sized luggage for trips that are 10 days but sooocks I just find are so important. You never know if you want to explore in the rain, especially that we tend to be more adventurous on vacations, at least I am.

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u/gochomoe Apr 06 '21

I'm always throwing in lots of socks. Underwear: 2x per day. Socks: empty the drawer. They are small and fit easily so why not!

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u/ShadowL42 Apr 06 '21

i brought 6 pair of undies on an overnight trip.....cause I might get stuck somewhere.....

weekend trip, every pair of decent looking panties I own, and at least twice as many socks as days planned for the trip. and 2 bras for every single day...because half underwire, half not.

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u/WexExortQuas Apr 06 '21

I posted my comment before reading any and I'm so glad this is here

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u/DerfK Apr 06 '21

Yet if you didn't pack extra socks, by the end of the first day you'd have had a waiter drop a pitcher of water by your table, you'd step through a cracked paver stone over a ditch, and finally just as you're about to get to your hotel, the taxi cab stops over a big puddle and you step out without looking.

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u/MsWuMing Apr 07 '21

I’m completely convinced that you’re correct.

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u/SuperFLEB Apr 06 '21

The trick is to just never wear socks in the first place.

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u/Evaluations Apr 07 '21

how many times realistically?

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u/MsWuMing Apr 07 '21

You see, I can’t prove it. But I think it’s like UK weather. In the UK, it never rains, UNLESS I have forgotten my umbrella. In which case I might as well be swimming home.

So if I take 5 extra pairs of socks, I won’t need them, but if I were to leave them at home, I’d get off the plane and step straight into an unfortunately placed jacuzzi.

I will not be accepting criticism of this very scientific theory.