Funny place to leave your trousers

@p1kef1sh (45681)
January 22, 2010 12:00pm CST
Railway Lost Property offices are apparently stuffed full of missing trousers. That is, trousers found on trains. What puzzles me is how did they come to be mislaid. I have travelled thousands of miles by train but never once lost my trousers. I wonder if there's a similar problem with skirts. Anyway, your theories will be gratefully appreciated along with your trousers.
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@jakill (835)
22 Jan 10
Oh boy, now I'm having visions of trains full of trouserless people, just carrying on as normal. Now the ticket collector is coming and their tickets were in their trouser pockets. Now they are all being herded into a black maria and whizzed off to go up before the beak. I wonder what will happen next.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
22 Jan 10
They'll all get fined thirty (k)nicker!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
A magistrate usually, but it can be a judge too Hatley.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Jan 10
hi uh tell this perplexed yank what the heck is a beak? a judge? inquiring minds want to know.
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• Australia
22 Jan 10
The mind boggles at the vision of them leaving the train! I think the most likely explanation is that people rode their bikes to the train station and travelled some distance in the train to work or whatever, with a change of clothing in their carry bag. When they changed (presumably in the rest room) they forgot to pack their travel clothes back into their carry bag - hence the lost property.
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• Australia
23 Jan 10
In our cities, commuters drive their cars or ride their bikes to a suburban train station and train into the city. There is also a push for bike riding here as an effort to cut down on pollution, so many are taking the challenge and riding their bikes. There is ample parking for cars at the station, as well as plenty of bike racks. This keeps a lot of traffic out of the city areas. People who ride their bikes usually take a back pack with their office/work clothes and change either at work or on the train.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
That'sgood thinking. But what did they do with their bikes?
@jakill (835)
23 Jan 10
When I used to commute to th city from the suburbs, people could take Brompton folding bikes on the train. I understand they were developed especially with such commuters in mind, and they are still being manufactured in London.
@leeloo (1492)
• Portugal
22 Jan 10
I read somewhere once that they where taking stock of I may be wrong but the London lost and found and on the inventory list besides the usual, umbrellas, gloves, trousers,hats there were dentures, glass eyes and something like a 14-foot boat. I can just imagine the person walking out and thinking - 'I don't know but I think I forgot something'. When travelling I can become forgetful and will admit to misplacing an umbrella or jersey but still who knows the type of day that person was having.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
LOL. Mislaying a boat really is careless! Perhaps it was lost on purpose. They have false limbs, wigs and all manner of stuff.
• United States
23 Jan 10
Wow! I hope they were spares they were carrying, planning to change at a later time. If not, I imagine somebody along the way reported them for flashing!!!
• United States
23 Jan 10
If there are, I hope they have shapely legs and nice-looking undergarments!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
I do wonder sometimes if there aren't legions of trouserless people running around!
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
22 Jan 10
It makes you wonder how they were dressed with they left the train! Maybe they were looking through their case for a special pair and left one out? Or something a bit more risque?
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
22 Jan 10
I do wonder indeed. In the old days there used to be blinds at carriage windows. These days however, well who knows what one might see as the train speeds past!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jan 10
no knickers?
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
22 Jan 10
Don't put stickers on my paper knickers! Good point. I shall have to enquire.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Jan 10
Don't lock up my protective cup?
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@nannacroc (4049)
23 Jan 10
It's all to do with the time warp on certain trains. Some trains have a desire to take trousers and deliver them to a different time zone. some trains are just so feminist that they refuse to allow trousers on them. I would have thought you'd know this but you may have forgotten.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
I had forgotten. Feminist trains are all the rage these days. The Brighton Belle etc. No point in skirting around the issue is there? Trains are girly.
• Canada
23 Jan 10
Now that is interesting. I'd love to know what the heck people are doing, taking their pants off on a train anyway. And if they're doing what i think they might have been doing, I hope they had their own private rooms in the "sleeping" (screwing) cars. haha Too friggen funny.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
UK trains have open seating these days. Other than the loos (too small for anything but the essentials) there's nowhere to be that private.
@mzz663 (2772)
• United States
23 Jan 10
Maybe they were going to change into them when no one else was looking or maybe they did change when no one else was looking and forgot to put them back into their bag....
@mzz663 (2772)
• United States
2 Feb 10
Well at least the things that are the most important are permanently attached to them!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
Most likely. But is does boggle my mind that people manage to lose something so important.
@GreenMoo (11834)
24 Jan 10
I´m equally confused by the number of shoes seen lying by the edges of roads. Perhaps people are driving far too fast with their feet out of the windows and the drag just pulls them straight off. Imagine these poor folk having to take a long trip via multiple means of transport. By the time they arrived at their final destination they´d be buck naked and their clothing scattered to the four winds.
@joyadalia (1408)
• Philippines
23 Jan 10
Maybe the trains are exciting places for having fun or people are just bringing too many trousers as I have yet to encounter a news item stating that a man/woman got off a train not wearing trousers .
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
Now you have!
@shuyin101 (206)
• Philippines
23 Jan 10
Lost trousers? wow that's weird. Why would a trouser be missing in a train? Maybe on the baggage area of the train someone is inspecting each and every baggage to check and stuff like bombs or illegal something?? not sure though. It would be funny if the lost trouser was found inside the passenger area of a train. That means the owner removed it while on board which is a whole new level of weirdness. LOL
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
It's very weird isn't it? But lots of trousers seem to be lost.
• United States
23 Jan 10
Last year I was in Galveston helping out with the Huricane Ike relief effort. After work one evening, I was hurrying to take take a shower and meet with someone. To get to the shower area, I had to go outside and walk past a large warehouse. Rushing, I grabbed my clean clothes and ran outside towards the showers. One of the workers from the warehouse across the street called out to me "Um, miss?" I stopped and turned around. The guy pointed to the ground behind me. "I think you dropped something." Mortified, I looked down to see my clean underwear sitting on the ground!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Jan 10
LOL. So I hope that you weren't "displaying"! Welcome to myLot.