This week, The Bachelorette offered us all an important life lesson in the art of gift giving: don’t buy socks for someone who hates feet. In fact, don’t buy socks as a gift – ever!
I know what you’re thinking – this is so insanely trivial – but the lesson here runs far deeper than the stitch on a rainbow-coloured toe sock, so hear me out.
During last night’s ep, Angie returned from her firefighting date with bald Insta hottie Ryan and, as expected, legit firefighter Jamie was seething.
“I’m absolutely gutted. I really thought that date was mine,” he said. I’m not going to lie – I really thought Angie would pick the only actual firefighter in the competition for a date which involved 99.9% firefighting, but hey, everyone makes their choices.
Instead of having whinge, legit firefighter Jamie thought he’d go for the lesser of two evils and approach Angie with a really, really, really weird gift. “I have this amazing gift for Angie so she can see how much I care about her,” he blindly promised us, holding up the box and winking.
Angie opened the box, and immediately, we knew it was bad news. It’s a pair of socks – not a tasteful pair of black socks, or those white ankle ones everyone wears with sneakers, it’s a pair of god awful RAINBOW SOCKS.
Before Angie can ask Jamie WTF he was thinking, he quickly explains, “when we were on the group date the other day, Yvie said something about you not liking your own feet.”
“It’s not about covering up your flaws. I think everything about you is beautiful,” he said. “When you’re having a really bad day, that night you go put these socks on, you go to sleep and the next day you wake up with nothing but love and positivity in your heart. Because after every storm, there’s always a rainbow.”
I’ll give it to Jamie – his words were sweet, but SOCKS – really, mate? If someone makes a comment about hating their own feet, why would you draw attention to them with rainbow socks, then explain it’s not about covering them up (which is exactly what socks are for).
Jamie socking it to Angie highlights a deeper issue of selective listening – of all them gem’s her BFF Yvie probably dropped, you ran with the feet comment? And it also confirms what we’ve all known for thousands of years – socks are a shitty gift. Sorry.
Angie’s awkward “thankkkk youuu” to Jamie’s gift spoke volumes, in my opinion. It was a bold move from the emotional firefighter, but when it came to the rose ceremony, Angie let him stay for yet another week. It’s the thought that counts, I guess?