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Mon | January 15, 2007

No Pants 2k7

Well, I went to that no pants thing. When I first read about it I thought it was a fun idea but had no intention of going. Then in a matter of minutes the idea had taken hold of my mind and by the time I went to bed that night about half an hour later there was no question that I had to go, or face torture from my own brain. And so I went. I emailed/IM'd/called a few people, one of whom came with me, so that worked out all right. And then it turns out that I knew one of the organizers. Which was unlikely considering I hardly know anyone anymore. But then again maybe it's not so unlikely.

Ironically I think I would have more to say about it if I hadn't gone. If I had thought about it in theory rather than in practice. In practice it was much easier than I thought it would be. Because there were so many people. It didn't really matter. I'd say the car I was in, was like 80/20 percent participants/ regular passengers. So we didn't get the experience of shocking others, which was not what appealed to me about it most anyway. It was more the experience of sitting on the metro in my underwear. It was very protected and risk-free because they even had a few policemen this year. I suppose that is good. I told Sharif that I would do it again with him just us some random day. He chose to go glasses shopping instead of this. I suppose because he didn't want to go support his roommate. And because he is a jaded too cool hipster and this is a seven year old idea to him.

It would be most ideal, I think, if the percent were more like 20 percent/ 80 percent participants to passengers. If all the people had been spread out over a few trains, instead of all getting onto one train. They did spread people out over the ten cars, of the 6 train, but still. All in all it was fun. Ben was an okay companion even though he did not participate. And then we went ice skating and had soul food at a place he called a "hole in the wall" and I called "affordable." The next day he emailed me a picture of myself that he found on the internet. That was not something I had thought about, and I would wear my hair differently if I could do it again. But mostly pictures of me are hopeless, or so far from right that it's not even worth thinking about.

Actually if I had done what I felt like I would have gotten off that crowded train, and hopped on a different one. Outside of the safety zone, which was kind of what it was all about anyway. But I didn't want to shock Ben any further and I don't think adorable Andrew would have left his responsibilities to come with us either.

At any rate I think I shall add "No Pants Day" to this holiday season. In an ideal world I would have a No Pants party at my apartment next year. Or on my own designated favorite subway line. Since having an apartment is even further away as a concept than having no pants. And actually a private party would be very different than a public event, like this one was. They would achieve different things.

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