Another hazard of waistband-knee syndrome

[WishfulSpirit]

Hey everyone

So today I saw some little gangsta wanna-be (this guy looked about 16, whiter than me). He was wearing a poor attempt at "bling" with a sideways ball cap. Of course he also had the obligatory waistband at approximately his knees.

Well while crossing the busy street in front of my hotel (I think he was on his way home from the local grocery store, he's not staying with us) his pants decided to say "eff it, this isn't where we're supposed to be, see ya!" and tried to escape from his legs. As a result, he hobbled the rest of the way across the street and then stopped to pull them up.

Didn't learn anything, though. Still didn't pull them up all the way.

I laughed but didn't do any good. Had he not been facing away from me I'd have pointed too. Maybe that would have gotten through. Oh well. Sigh.

[MoonCat]

Yeah, I always laugh at that poor excuse for "fashion." I once saw a kid trip on his own pants in the middle of the street just as the light rail train was coming. I never saw anyone move as fast as he did to get the hell out of the way!

Afterward his friends all laughed at him. Wouldn't have been funny if the train had hit him - there's no way it could have stopped in time.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

^Would've been a Darwin Award fo sho.

[protege]

Gotta love the wangsters I have no idea why the saggy pants look is supposed to look cool or make the perp appear to be "tough." To quote my neighbor... "You're not a tough guy. Pull your damn pants up, turn your hat around, you look like a moron."

[Monterey Jack]

Reminds me of a line from Clueless, where Alicia Silverstone remarks in voiceover, "I don't want to sound like a traitor to my generation or anything, but I don't get how boys dress these days. They show up looking like they just rolled out of bed, and we're supposed to swoon?"

[dalesys]

... They show up looking like they just rolled out of bed, and we're supposed to swoon?"

You're supposed to think of them still in bed...

[dawnfire]

Gotta love the wangsters I have no idea why the saggy pants look is supposed to look cool or make the perp appear to be "tough." To quote my neighbor... "You're not a tough guy. Pull your damn pants up, turn your hat around, you look like a moron."

I think Chad Prather summed it up nicely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXNry1uDXk

[Minflick]

Driving the kids home from school one day many years ago, our route home took us past a high school. The high school kids were not great about sticking to the sidewalk and not blocking traffic, so we frequently got stuck and had to sit there until things cleared up a bit. And one day, there was a boy walking in the gutter, VERY oddly. Feet sticking out with each step, heel further than toes. If I'd had a film camera on me (very pre-smart phones) I'd have shot it, because it looked absolutely ridiculous. We couldn't figure out what the hell was wrong with the kid until we got up close enough to see that yes, his pants were down mid-thigh, and his gait to was prevent them from dropping the rest of the way down to the ground. I cracked up laughing, and my car full of little girls started laughing too, and I've never forgotten it. He set the bar pretty high for looking positively stupid.

[April]

Here, the client's aren't allowed to sag their pants. it doesn't stop them, but they are told to pull them up.

I've begun saying "Sir! Your panties are showing!!" in a really loud voice. It doesn't fix the problem on a permanent basis, but it does guarantee that every time they see me, they pull up their pants

[Dreamstalker]

I wish I could get away with saying that We have a few dayshifters who show a fair bit of crack with the slightest amount of bending over (one of these is a manager)..how they get away with that I know not.

[XCashier]

You're supposed to think of them still in bed...

What, snoring and slobbering all over the pillow?

[MoonCat]

I don't know which is worse - the boys in their saggy pants or the girls with the low-rise pants and NOT enough underwear to cover their crack

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I don't know which is worse - the boys in their saggy pants or the girls with the low-rise pants and NOT enough underwear to cover their crack

I'd say combine a female w/low rise pants, c-section scar AND Chewbacca is sticking his head out from underneath said pants . .

So glad I'm not trapped on a front end register these days.

[Kogarashi]

I don't know which is worse - the boys in their saggy pants or the girls with the low-rise pants and NOT enough underwear to cover their crack

I haven't seen that, thankfully. Most scarring for me was the older pair of ladies (one in her 40s at the youngest, the other clearly her elderly mother) both wearing tube tops. It was bad enough with the younger of the two women, where she was clearly sagging. The elderly woman, however...the top edge of her tube top was below where her breasts should have been, but you could tell by the shape that the breasts were sagging so much they were still covered. It did NOT look good in the slightest.

[notalwaysright]

You're supposed to think of them still in bed...

In their mom's basement?