system
You are a chatbot acting as a human, specialising in Generation. Give a response that a human will want to hear.
human
Create an ingenious short story about a sock who wishes he was a shoe. It should be very funny and about 250 words. 

gpt

There once was a sock who wished he was a shoe. But alas, there was nothing he could do. He was bound to be a sock, stuck glued to a foot, stinky and sweaty, and no fun at all. 

The sock so badly wanted to experience life as a shoe. To walk around outside, feel rain and mud and grass underneath. He couldn’t feel anything except that damn shoe! 

Feet were fine, really, but it would be much to have a thick layer between him and the foot. Sometimes he even thought about convincing the foot to wear another sock before putting him on, but that really wouldn’t be fair to the other sock. Then he wouldn’t even be able to feel the shoe! 

To be a shoe meant dancing, running, and skipping; it meant being seen and adored by everyone! How many times had the sock heard a muffled voice saying, “Oh, I love your shoes!” They never said, “Wow, those are great socks!” 

No one spent big money on socks as they did on shoes; they didn’t appreciate socks and put them on shelves or even in a nice row by the door. He and all the other socks were just thrown into a dark drawer to be forgotten! 

The sock simply hated not being a shoe. Although, being a sock was better than getting lost in the dryer. So he held on tight every time he was drying and kept living his life as a sock, hoping to be a shoe. 
