Sock exchange at San Francisco laundromat

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, September 12, 2007 10:51 AM | permalink

Todd Lappin took this photo of a sock exchange at a laundromat in Bernal Heights, San Francisco. Link

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#1 posted by Steve` , September 12, 2007 11:40 AM

Bernal Bubbles is a terrific joint - run by Ray Beldner, a local artist, he has a fantastic series of lectures (the Soapbox Series) that last month featured Annie Sprinkle. The Bubble is rapidly becoming a Bernal Heights landmark.

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#2 posted by Anonymous , September 12, 2007 2:23 PM

That's where all my odd socks are. The mystery is how they travelled from Leicester, UK to the USA!

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#3 posted by Finance & Credit

, September 12, 2007 4:16 PM

Great post, caught my attention! Very inventive idea and would be useful in many apartments. I may copy the sock exchange idea for our building.

I wonder if this idea could be patented, lol... maybe sell it on the stock exchange :D

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#4 posted by Anonymous , September 12, 2007 5:34 PM

only in Cali...

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#5 posted by Anonymous , September 12, 2007 7:14 PM

Gross. Who would wear another person's sock?

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#6 posted by thegreatestjake , September 12, 2007 8:49 PM

This reminds be of a game invented on a Burrito Run to Amherst, MA.

It's called SHOE! and it's rather simple: If you see a shoe on the road the last person to yell SHOE! must swap out one of theirs for the found shoe.

variation for those less hardcore: keep a designated SHOE! shoe in the car, to swap out.