That Plastic Thingy Holding New Socks Together

You buy a pair of socks. When you go to put them on, you find they are chained together by this little strip of plastic. Naturally, you don’t have a pair of scissors handy, so you yank the damned socks apart. The indestructible plastic thingy pops through both layers of one sock. One of the new pair of socks has rapidly unravelling holes before you even put them on. The other still has the plastic thingy stuck in it, waiting to catch you between the toes as you pull your socks on.