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No Pants 2K8, a no-slacks spectacle that was started by the New York-based performance comedy group, Improv Everywhere, is upon us, and you know what that means: Drop trou, pronto!
Not so fast...it's not quite as simple as that; there are some basic procedural guidelines. The eventual seminudity begins on Saturday at 2:00 P.M. at the Granville Red Line station and disembarks at Monroe. According to the Facebook page, about 50 people have confirmed that they will be going pants-less on Saturday and about as many "maybes," so you won't have to go it alone. [Ed note: It looks like initial plans were to meet at the Loyola stop, but local organizers moved it to the less-popular Granville stop.]
The tradition has been going on for at least five years in New York, but this year, No Pants subway rides are branching out to just about every American city that has a subway (plus Toronto and Adelaide, Australia), and even some that don't. Is this just the latest attempt by New Yorkers to reinforce their perceived status as cultural gatekeepers? Perhaps, but that's no excuse to keep your pants on.
Guidelines, from the Chicago No Pants 2K8 Facebook group:
You can wear socks, shoes, boots, coats, gloves, shirts and hats - just no pants. (Thongs probably not a great idea if you don't want to get jumped or thrown in jail) The hard part (aside from not catching something) is to be completely deadpan about it. You pretend like you don't know any of the other pants-less riders. You should be acting like it is perfectly normal to have been waiting for the subway without your pants!
Wannabe "agents," as IE participants are called, should practice being completely deadpan, because there's one and only one way to respond if someone asks you why you're not wearing pants. "I forgot them." --Mark Boyer
Pants-less Man via Improv Everywhere
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how about: 'i left them in my other pants.'
Hey, this will be easy for guys with boxers - but what do girls do? Parade around in their undies? Pretty sweet...
In all seriousness, I've done this twice in my life by accident. I used to live on the east coast and drive to work where I'd park in my building's garage. The last thing I would do in the morning was to put on my skirt (so it wouldn't get wrinkled). I'd be entirely dressed - shirt, hose, slip, heels - but just need to put on my skirt and grab my suit jacket and hop in my car.
So on 2 occasions, I grabbed my jacket and hopped in my car and went off to work. And didn't notice until I was in my office that I was wearing no skirt. I actually had to send one of my girlfriends to the department store across the street with my credit card to buy me a skirt.
I think the worst part was that no one told me - none of the parking garage attendants, none of the building security guards, no one until my girlfriend walked into my office with our morning coffee (we would meet 30 minutes before work in my office to do our football pool once a week).
Talk about humiliating.
it's a rare woman that still wears a slip, happygrl. maybe they really thought it was some new fashion trend. guys sometimes don't get it. or maybe they were embarrassed and didn't know what to say. uhh, did you mean not to wear a skirt today?
but that's wild, to be sure.
i'm intrigued by this no pants proposition. i think i want to do it. hopefully, there's safety in numbers.
Why doesn't this happen some time during the year when it's not so cold outside?
I hold no regard for this "comedy group" ever since I saw the incredibly mean prank they pulled on that band on This American Life. None of their shenanigans requires any comedic talent or any other kind of talent. The members strike me as the theatre kids who weren't talented enough to get any of the good parts but still think they're worth a shit on stage.
"good pants"?? oh, sorry..."good parts"
I'm pleased to know I merely have to walk four blocks to see/join in the beginning of this spectacle.
I have an issue with my thighs, though. And then there's that dilemma of leg shaving in the winter...
I'll just watch.
The only bad thing for people who want to "watch" is that, like the naked runs and nude beaches, usually the people that do these things are not the people you WISH would do them.