So... What next?

10/01/2010

No, I didn’t do something inappropriate again. Or at least this was not my own initiative...

ImprovEverywhere is a group of people in New York that for many years now has been organising random events in the street, the participants of which usually do something out of the ordinary. The No Pants subway ride is one of those events and it has been taking place annually for many years now. The past few years it has also been happening in other cities around the world.

The idea of the event is for everyone who wishes to participate to show up at a predetermined location without wearing pants. The rest of the details are up to each one’s discretion and imagination.

This year, it was also organised in San Francisco and since I’m here, there was no way I would not take part.

We gathered with a group of friends and went to the subway at 2pm. Although we were not really that surprised, it was still immensely entertaining to see hundreds of people, flocking into the subway, having left their pants at home.



Before you know it, it was a huge number of pantless people, taking the subway until one predefined station



and then hitting the streets.



We ended up going to a couple of bars, taking more buses later and staying pantless until sundown. As time was passing, the crowds were becoming smaller and smaller, so the shock effect to people passing by was becoming even funnier. It’s one thing seeing hundreds of people in the streets without pants on, and another seeing only 3 people in the bus, acting like normal but being in their underwear.



It was a laughter-filled day, with many wonderful new connections and could not have worked out any better. Thank you San Francisco. :)

M.