the socks

Every now and then I get confronted with something that is really hard for me to understand. Some things are more ridiculous than others but this is probably one of the most "interesting" ones.

To put things into perspective we have two pets with lightly coloured coats and they shed their fur all over the house. I got used to it over the years as this is part of having pets. Anyway my partner approached me with a solution. She got fed up with dealing with fur on DARK clothes. Her problem is that even after washing there were visible hairs on the cloths. What could the solution to this problem be? Maybe vacuum more than once every two weeks? Apparently there is a better solution. Replace all my black socks with white ones. That way the dark washing will not be contaminated with what I collect on my socks during the day. Another option would be for me to wear slippers or house-shoes. When I replied that first of all I do not like white socks (I wear mostly dark clothes and shoes) and I really do not like wearing shoes in the house in summer, this turned to a very crazy argument. All proposed solutions required me to change how I live. No middle ground. Since I wasn't happy with any proposed solution I suggested that I will vacuum every 2 days to help with the problem. Not a big deal as it takes 10 minutes and I can do it before going to work. To be honest I expected to share this chore and maybe have a roster but my proposal got accepted and now I have yet another thing to do while my partner is watching tv...

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