超囧的迎春方式：烧旧袜子

　　In keeping with a 30-year tradition, sailors at the Eastport Yacht Club in Annapolis burned their socks at a waterside gathering¹.

　　Meanwhile at the docks of the Downtown Sailing Center in the Inner Harbor, sailors put a twist on the tradition and donated pairs of new socks to the Helping² Up Mission in East Baltimore. More than 700 pairs of new socks that would later be donated were tossed in one of the club's sail boats.

　　According to Annapolis lore³, the sock-burning practice was initiated⁴ in the late 1980s by Bob Turner, then the manager of the Annapolis Yacht Yard. In a telephone conversation Friday, Hecklinger recounted the oft-told story of the origin of the ritual.

　　To welcome the first day of spring, and relieve some of his frustrations⁵, Turner took off his socks, put them in a paint tray, doused⁶ them with lighter⁷ fluid and set them ablaze⁸. He toasted the arrival of spring with a cold beverage⁹.

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