We Got Socked!

We Got Socked

We got Socked the other day!

The other morning, I noticed there were some things on our porch chair. One was a package, which was expected, and the other thing was a Christmas stocking.

We got some candy, a dog toy and some other goodies. According to the rules, I now had 48 hours to refill the stocking and go Sock someone else.

Who Socked Us?

I checked our Ring doorbell footage from the night before to see if I could find out who Socked us. Whoever Socked us did it so fast that on video, it looked like the stocking just magically appeared.

I thought about who might have Socked me, and I had 3 suspects in my neighborhood. I didn’t want to just Sock them back. I figured I should pick a friend that isn’t in our neighborhood.

Who to Sock?

I had to think of someone that wasn’t home during the day so I would be able to leave the sock and not get caught. Once I picked the person, my friend “J” from Zumba, I filled the stocking with some goodies and some cat toys. J has cats and I wanted to pay the pet gift forward.

J’s House

So, today, I ran some errands and then drove out to J’s house. She just recently moved in and I hadn’t been there before. There was a car in her driveway and I realized that even though she was at work, her kids might be home due to virtual school.

Dang it.

Mailboxes

Ok, well, I can stick it in her mailbox!

I turned my car around and drove up to the grouping of mailboxes across from her house. Only one of the mailboxes had the number on it that I could see, so I wasn’t sure which mailbox was J’s.

I was facing the wrong way on the street in order to reach the mailboxes, so I drove a bit more and then turned around and went to another set of mailboxes to make sure none of those were hers.

Nope, none were hers.

I turned around again to try and just run it up to her porch, but there was a couple in her yard that were cleaning up after their dog relieved himself.

Ugh.

I drove back up to the original set of mailboxes. I opened up the one I assume was hers, and stuffed the stocking inside. I guess worst-case scenario, I Socked a stranger.

Socking done!

Playing Dumb

A little over an hour later, I got a snapchat of the stocking from J and she asked if I had done it. I played dumb and asked, “What is that?”. She replied “We got Socked lol!”

I replied with a simple, “Oh?”.

She asked me again if it was me and then told me that she knew who did it to me.

Solving the “Mystery”

Oh, damnit. One of my neighbors that I suspected, “S”, is her (ex) sister-in-law. I had known that this might be an issue, but I really hadn’t thought it was S. Even if it was, would J have been in the know about it?

I asked, “S?”.

She replied with and “idk lol”.

Crap. Did she just lie to me to get me to confess?

J said that her daughter, “N” loved it and that it was so sweet.

So I confessed to the Socking.

Turns out, S had gotten Socked when two of her nieces, S and N, had been at her house. S and N are J’s daughters. So, N had already seen the stocking and when I Socked J, N recognized it.

Apparently, S had asked J what my address was and if I had a video doorbell. Then she snapchatted J right before Socking us to show her her ninja-esqe outfit. So J knew as soon as she and Natalie saw the stocking in the mailbox that I had Socked them.

So, J’s daughters got to see the stocking go full circle!

Oops

In the end, I realize I probably should have Socked someone that didn’t have ties to a person in my neighborhood. Especially since the only reason I am aware of S is because of J.

When S moved into our neighborhood, I noticed that she had the same name as J and inquired with J about it. I have dropped some donations and walked my dog passed her house, but I’ve never actually met S in person, so that’s kind of funny.