For most people, white socks at work is just a moment of nerdiness. For me, it was out right embarrassing.
When I took a shower and changed after PT, I realized that I had forgotten my Green Socks required by the Army. The only option was white–so I put them on. Unfortunately, I forgot about them. I had a couple of opportunities to change–I was even at a PX Shoppette (which is not recognized by the spell check as a real word).
But, I didn’t think about them again until the afternoon staff meeting, when I crossed my legs exposing my explicit violation of AR 607-1, “Wear and Appearance of Uniforms”. It was then that I looked over and saw a Lieutenant Colonel giving me the evil eye.
Oooops! I was busted. He was even across the room and I was surrounded by other people!–but I was busted. I hope I didn’t look too embarrassed, because I had worse screw-ups.