This – is the stuff of bad dreams, you’re riding the subway and suddenly realize you have no pants, just your underwear! Sunday it became a world-wide reality, and a nightmare to no one, though perhaps a bit chilly.
In New York alone, there were 4 to 5,000 pants less riders. It’s January! Riders casually sat reading, talking, and listening to music as if it were any other day. It was only different by the exhibition of gooseflesh, cellulite, and perhaps some piercings and tattoos which don’t usually see the light of day. There are no official numbers for the European train and subway riders who enthusiastically joined with others in Washington DC, Baltimore, San Francisco, and Seattle.
The odd thing is that in the U.S. which went berserk over a “wardrobe malfunction” a few years ago, people have taken to underwear clad subway and train riding with a blasé attitude. If you missed it, don’t despair. Buy some nice undies and keep them clean, the group ‘Improv Everywhere‘ famous for public ‘scenes’ plans more of the um….events.