Wonky Sock
‘My sock wonky. You straighten sock with face, slave. Use nose. Roll up sock!’
‘Yes, pretty mistress. At once, pretty mistress. It will be an honour for me to straighten your wonky sock with my nose, thanking you kindly mistress!’
Sock straightening is just one of the many ancillary services, in addition to lickshining shoes and boots, that a public footslave can be called upon to perform for a customer master or mistress. And this particular customer-mistress requires her left sock to be straightened.
I can see the problem with my own eyes as she shoves her left foot in front of my confined face. Her left sock has indeed slipped down her pretty ankle whereas her right sock remains steadfastly upright, thus making her socks look somewhat slovenly and uneven. The left sock must be straightened!
Of course, it would be a lot easier if the customer-mistress just leaned down and pulled up her left sock herself. But, then again, why should she when there are dozens of public footservants like me dotted throughout the city and ready to serve our superiors’ socks? To be fair, she does manoeuvre her pretty ankle around my face to facilitate my nose in lifting up her socktop, though, due to the restrictions in movement imposed upon my neck by my permanent, heavy iron, neck collar, I’m ashamed to say I manage only partiallyto elevate the top of the customer-mistress’s left sock to its rightful level.
Still, when she turns to leave me she appears sullenly satisfied with my meagre efforts on her sock. At least, she does not scold me for failing to satisfy her sock wishes, which can only be a good thing – though I somehow sense that she is annoyed that she had to help me perform such a mundane task by manipulating her foot and ankle. It’s actually hard to tell what the customer-mistress is thinking since she says nothing.
As I watch her socks disappear from view, I fervently hope and pray the offending sock doesn’t start to slip down her shapely ankle again – otherwise I know I will be in trouble!
