If someone's crack is showing...

[timnmostud]

I'm with the group of leave it alone and look somewhere else. I doubt he would have taken it any better had you told him yourself. But, you can't really go around policing everything you don't want to see. Besides, it's just an asscrack!

 

[Swellegant]

All I can say is "turn around." I see all sorts of horrible things in big stores, and I just don't look at them. Seriously, the guy could have dropped trou and crapped right on the floor, and I'd just step around it. Other people are none of my business.

However, I share your disbelief, IJBML86, that someone would be so insensate to his own clothing as to let such a thing happen. Didn't he feel them slip? I can tell when the bottom of my sweater has parted company with the top of my pants, even though I'm wearing a shirt in between; didn't he feel the cool breeze along his skin?

I think if my waist were wider than my hips (a not-too-distant possibility), I'd wear suspenders ("braces" for our UK friends) and/or very long shirts. All-in one longjohns underneath to keep the skin in check. Or a nice enveloping kaftan or daishiki. Choir robes, maybe?

But then, I'm a big vain queen and would rather spend the rest of my life in a polyester twinset from the Delta Burke Collection than show the tiniest bit of asscrack.

Unless, of course, my ass was really cute, in which case I'd be tempted to show it off all the time.

 

[metta]

I was at Wal Mart today waiting to make a return and there was a very obese man infront of me with his wife and son. He was wearing athletic shorts that were sagging and about 3" his crack was visible.

I did not want to see that, nor did the other people so I told an employee to tell him to pull up his pants. He pulled them up, only to let them fall again! I was really in disbelief and disgust at this point.

So, he leaves and right as I'm about to leave the return area....this fatass actually comes up to me, gets in my face and says "Next time someone's crack is showing, grow some balls and tell them to their face". And then, threatened to key my car.

Swear to god I was a split second away from knocking the $hit out of him. I don't understand the logic. He got in my face because I told an employee his fatass was showing in a PUBLIC store? He should have thanked me. I don't doubt this has anything to do with my location either (that kind of thing is common here, believe it or not), because it takes a lot for a grown man to act like that.

What has happened to America?

It is not America....you shopped at WalMart...ewwwww

WalMart represents all that is ugly about America. They represent people that just don't care. All that matters is that they can buy stuff cheap.

 

[cynicus]

I think of Nancy Reagan and just say "no" to crack. Don't know about you, but my mother taught me that it is not nice to say things about other people's appearances. Must be a Southern thing.

 

[sixthson]

What are you? The crack police?

You'll really must have a miserable life if all you can do is
find fault with others.

I think the guy was right, if it was that important to you, you should have had the balls to say something to him rather than bother store employees. The polite thing (ever heard of manners?) would have been to look the other way. You didn't want to see him embarrassed, so you drew it to the attention of others, thereby embarrassing him. Admit, you wanted him to feel small, didn't you?

If you are so high and mighty and think so little of WalMart and those who shop there, why do you shop there?

Get real.

 

[herenthere]

As hard as it is to imagine, there are people who simply do not care.

Since he had his wife and son with him, you would think one of them would have said something, especially if others were laughing at him.

It kinda makes me draw the conclusion that this may be the norm for him and not the exception.

Its not my job to police Wal-mart or concern myself with other peoples business..
Sad but true...it is an interesting world we live in.

 

[RationalLunacy]

I was at Wal Mart today.....

There's your first clue, Sherlock.

 

[Orlandude]

Why is that Target gets the regular people and Wal Mart gets the circus?

It remains a mystery. Target is so much nicer, cleaner (I find WalMart digustingly filthy) and better quality merchandise. Then again, the "Tarjay" near me is so GAY (customers and staff) that no circus sideshow would DARE walk in there! I was in there just yesterday and thought I had mistakenly walked into the bar! Queens dusting shelves, people being openly dissed, lovers arguing over whether or not a t-shirt should be worn to the bar. They should have a separate section for "Gay Bar Attire". Hmmm...maybe it's a different kind of circus sideshow.

 

[Ninja108]

My theory... is just to turn around and walk away. Not worth getting in a fight with a stranger.

 

[Diodorus]

Hmmm,,I don't have that problem since I won't shop at WalMart. However you could carry around extra pencils with you and the next crack you happen to run across you could just slip a pencil down their crack. I bet they'd remember that and make sure their pants are up all the time.

 

[Christopher123]

I was at Wal Mart today waiting to make a return and there was a very obese man infront of me with his wife and son. He was wearing athletic shorts that were sagging and about 3" his crack was visible.

I did not want to see that, nor did the other people so I told an employee to tell him to pull up his pants. He pulled them up, only to let them fall again! I was really in disbelief and disgust at this point.

So, he leaves and right as I'm about to leave the return area....this fatass actually comes up to me, gets in my face and says "Next time someone's crack is showing, grow some balls and tell them to their face". And then, threatened to key my car.

Swear to god I was a split second away from knocking the $hit out of him. I don't understand the logic. He got in my face because I told an employee his fatass was showing in a PUBLIC store? He should have thanked me. I don't doubt this has anything to do with my location either (that kind of thing is common here, believe it or not), because it takes a lot for a grown man to act like that.

What has happened to America?

Ummmmm... honestly? I'd be a little upset, too. If I were him, that is. I'm sure he was pretty embarrassed.

If I had been standing behind him and the sight wasn't pleasing to the eye, I would have just looked away and dealt with it until I left the store. I've seen worse.

Actually I feel kind of bad for him, but that's just me. I mean, honestly, to go find an employee to ask the guy to pull up his pants? Gads!

I wouldn't have said anything at all, personally.

 

[Christopher123]

I spoke up 1. because I don't want to see that shit, and 2. because I felt I should let him know to avoid further embarrassment

Psssssst... then go up to him and say, "hey, guy, your pants are falling down. Just thought you might wanna know in case you weren't aware of it."

If he'd punch me, then, oh well.

 

[sixthson]

And who the fuck are you?! Do you know me....didn't think so.

In fact, I do know you. You are one of those self loathing-type homosexuals who resents having to be gay. When you hate yourself, you frequently start hating others and are easily annoyed by them (this thread is a good example of that).

I'm sorry you feel it is not only your role in life to point out the flaws in others, but to then feel compelled to start a thread about your "thoughtfulness" to the poor man.

It's too bad you don't like what I have to say, but I don't hold you in the same high regard as you hold yourself.

**reminder: you're finished with this thread.

 

[Christopher123]

Telling someone to pull their pants up is kindof like telling someone they look slopy. Or like telling someone they should pick their nose, coz you can see a boogie. Im sorry, but i would be embarrassed if someone told me that. Keying your car is however unnecessary, i would never go that route.
When im in a situation like that, i would rather turn a blind eye. Its not worth all the trouble i can get into.

I did tell someone once about food on their face.

My brother and I went out to lunch at an Italian restaurant one time and there were two guys at the table next to us. Well, they got up to leave about the same time we did and it wasn't an 'elegant' place where they come to your table to pick up your check, you take it to the front counter when you're finished. So we're standing there in line waiting to pay and these two were standing in front of us. And I noticed that one of them had a big smear of sauce on his face and he was completely oblivious.

So I leaned to him and tapped him on the arm and quietly said, "Hey, you've got spaghetti sauce on your face."

He was like, "Do I?" while he began to rub his face with his hand and I just nodded and smiled. So he smacks the guy he's with on the arm and said, "Thanks alot! Were you planning on letting me go around with sauce on my face all day?"

We all just laughed and that was that.

So something like that I'll speak up about. But if I see an asscrack, I simply ignore it. I mean, if the guy's pants are falling down around his ankles and he doesn't realize it, there's something wrong, there.

lol

 

[sixthson]

Was finished. Until you came back talking shit and making generalizations about how I deal with my sexuality.

Thanks for turning this into something personal. I'm sure at 21 you struggled with your sexuality as well--who the fuck are you to label me a "self hating gay"?

Fuck you.

I was not criticizing your struggle with your sexuality. I was making a connection between your attitude TOWARD your sexuality and your attitude toward others. Your anger here proves my point, I think.

You claim to be sympathetic to this man, but to me, you failed to come across so magnanimously.

 

[mrfish67]

Wow, a lot of fuss over a butt crack. I would have had a little laugh over it and just let it go.

 

[sweet_taboo]

I wouldn't have a problem at all if it (he) looked like this.....

 

[MetaKnight]

Honestly I dont care. Crack is whack, but I wont go around tellin people "your crack is showing! Pull up your pants!" I'll just look away and pretend nothing happened.

But still, anyone that wears pants that clearly dont fit... its their own damn fault.

 

[HPNJ2006]

Oh Wal-mart.

Wal-mart Wal-mart Wal-mart. The place I went to in college at 3 AM when I needed chewing gum, a roasted chicken and a bicycle tire. You always get your people-watching fill there. You also usually end up getting scared half to death. Makes me glad I live in an area where there aren't very many of their stores.

Has anyone seen the SNL "Wal-mart greeters" skit starring Jennifer Garner from about 3 years ago?

Greeter 1: Hi welcome to Wal-mart
Greeter 2: You are now OFFICIALLY in this here Wal-mart.
Customer: Thanks. Um, I'm looking for bath rugs with patriotic baby ducks on them.
Greeter 1: Hmm, bath rugs with patriotic baby ducks... That's in Aisle 6,000. And here, take this poncho, 'cause I think it's rainy season in that part of Wal-mart.
Greeter 2: And they might not speak English over there because we have three indigenous languages to this here Wal-mart.
Customer: Oh... ok... thank you.
Greeter 1: blu plu plu... that means "you're welcome" in Wal-mart.

 

[Swellegant]

So today I was driving along the road (Highway 4, to be exact) and there was this car pulled over, and I looked at it because I always look at everything except the road when I drive. There was a woman and a girl standing looking at something behind the car, so I followed their gaze... and there was a man lying there on the ground, doing something to the underside of the car (fixing the exhaust pipe perhaps), with his shirt riding up and his pants riding down, a rather fat back in between and all sorts of crack, and I was reminded immediately of this thread.

At another moment in the day, I was walking to the elevator at work, on my way back from lunch, and I reached down to my belt to pull my security badge down (it hangs from a retractable lanyard) so I could operate the elevator; and on the way, my hand brushed bare skin! I spent the rest of the day trying to pull the hem of my polo shirt down and sucking in my tummy so that that half-inch of exposure wouldn't happen again, and it also made me think of this thread.

I'm not sure if there's a lesson in these two episodes, but I offer them to you for whatever you can get out of them. Along with some nice skin:

And though I believe your motives were kind, IJBML86, it really wasn't your business. If he was a friend, yes... it would have been your duty to point out the sartorial disaster going on back there; but a stranger's butt is his own concern.

However, I wonder what one would be expected to do if he'd been wearing leather chaps, his entire ass hanging all the way out? How many inches of ass, what precise proportion of skin to cloth, comprises indecent exposure? Would he be allowed into the store at all? Probably not.

Or if it was a woman, not showing crack but rather showing nipple? Would we be expected to look the other way, or would we think it was necessary to say something? Remembering the furore over Janet Jackson at the Superbowl, I wonder.

I think the ass-crack of a fat man is something our society laughs at because it's not considered sexy; while at the same time society gets its panties in a twist about other body-parts... the thing is, the whole thing is completely arbitrary. I find ass-crack sexy on a hot muscular guy but not on a non-hot fat guy; but is that really my prerogative to tell the fat man he can't give crack? I wouldn't dream of saying it to the hottie, I'd be too busy drooling.

I've decided that the only fair thing is to simply not care what parts people choose to show, consciously or accidentally. Let your boobies flap in the breeze, let your balls peek out of the legs of your cutoffs: if it's hot, I'll ogle; if it's not, I'll look somewhere else. Hell, let boogers hang from your nose, let rats nest in your hair. None of my concern.

Just as it's none of their concerns if I wear a dress and/or carry a fluffy pink purse if I feel like it. To each his own, live and let live, it takes all kinds to make a world... know what I mean?

However, if you see me with some part of my central anatomy showing, like anything between the clavicle and the knee, please tell me. I swear to God I won't key your car.