Lefty the Happy Sock

Lefty was one of Max’s most favourite socks. With Max’s other favourite sock, Righty, they went everywhere together.

Lefty and Righty were long and blue and striped and people often commented on how cute they were.

Being the favourites Lefty and Righty were always first picked for Max’s adventures.

Sometimes Mum put Lefty on the right and Righty on the left…but they didn’t care.

They went with Max’s shoes, they went with Max’s sandals and one time Dad even put them with with Max’s thongs!

Max always took them to fun places, they went running through grass, jumping in puddles and roughhousing with their dog, Maggie.

Lefty loved everything he did with Righty. He even loved tumbling around the washing machine and sun baking on the clothes line.

But one day Dad bundled Lefty up with a different sock, he was blue and stripey like Righty but it wasn’t Righty.

Lefty thought Dad should have known that he was always bundled up with Righty.

Lefty remembered Dad sometimes pretended they weren’t a bundle of socks but a football and kick them down the hallway

.…so surely Dad knew to put him with Righty! It was all Dad’s fault he wasn’t with Righty!

Then and there Lefty decided he wasn’t going to go anywhere, any more.

The other sock he had been put with was called Spare.

Spare tried his best to get Lefty to go out and have adventures with him and Max.

But Lefty was just rude to Spare, scowling at him “You’re not Righty! I only play with Righty! Righty, Max and I have fun together, and you’re no fun!”

Spare tried his best to be friends with Lefty.

Spare even told Lefty that he had an old friend that he used be bundled with called Odd. Spare explained to Lefty that he missed Odd just like Lefty missed Righty. Spare said this meant he knew how Lefty felt.

Lefty just grizzled “I’m not playing with you, I only like playing with Righty”.

Spare pointed out  to Lefty that “Max, Odd and I had lots of fun and Odd wasn’t even blue and stripey like us”.

Spare suggested maybe they could try and have fun together instead of sitting in the boring old drawer all day. But Lefty just pouted and stopped talking to Spare.

After a long time in the dark boring drawer, Lefty and Spare had fallen right down the bottom and nobody asked them to play anymore.

One day Mum went to the drawer looking for Max’s hanky, because sometimes she put a hanky in with the socks. While Mum searched the Socks got mixed around and Lefty and Spare landed next two a particularly faded pair of thin socks.

They were worn and thin and Lefty definitely did not want to speak to them.

Lefty then heard a little voice, “Is that you lefty?”. The voice sounded familiar. “It’s me Righty” Lefty couldn’t believe it, his old friend Righty had faded so much and got so thin he didn’t recognise him.

 “What happened to you?” inquired Lefty. Then Righty told Lefty all about his adventures with Odd.

Righty said he remembered being sad that Dad had mixed them up, but decided he could still have fun with Odd.

Odd and Righty went out playing with Max and Maggie who had both gotten so big since Lefty had seen them, they had been worn as gloves, they even went on a slippery side! they had done everything.

Lefty realised he had been so silly. If he had listened to  Spare they could have had all that fun as well.

Spare pointed out how horrible Lefty had been to him. Spare then said that Lefty was being so rude he was even going to ignore his best friend Righty!

Lefty apologised to Spare and promised to go and play the very next chance they got.

Lefty realised it might be sad when things change, friends move or you can’t do something anymore….but it is even sadder when you don’t keep doing other fun things because one thing has gone wrong.

After that Lefty was first to do everything and spent less time in the boring old drawer, he got bundled up with spare and then bundled up with Righty and Odd and other new friends he hadn’t met before….Dad even once made him into a bundle with a red sock! But Lefty didn’t care at all.