All of the clothes you're wearing right now vanish this second. How screwed are you?

Right now?
No problems - I’m at home.

In public? Eh, who cares - I’m a gym rat and in good shape, so let ‘em stare…

I’m sitting in my living room right now, and if it weren’t for the fact that I’m a slight bit chilly right now, I’d already be naked. So the biggest hassle for me would be that I’d be out one shirt and one pair of pants, and they both cost me about two bucks each at the thrift store.

I’m at work, so it would suck. But nobody is here except security guard and me, so he might see something on the cameras. I might be able to fashion some pants out of some plastic bags at my desk and claim something like “I have misplaced my pants” and slip out to my car fairly quickly to get some sweaters. But no spare pants.

If my ID badge doesn’t disappear, I can get into the datacenter and fashion a robe out of a fireblanket.

Finally, a camera to hopefully record the “sudden disappearance”.

Fun question **Idle. **

Also, I’d wonder briefly if I was about to get raptured.

Not screwed, although I think the dog would be irritated. She is curled up next to me on the bed and would be annoyed when I moved (the nerve!) to go get a shirt or something. Other than that, I’d be wondering what the hell just happened. Apparently I picked the wrong week to stop drinking. :wink:

I’m at home. So losing my clothes wouldn’t be a problem. My closet is only 10 feet away.

It would be embarrassing at work or out shopping. I’d try to buy something to wear if I was in a store. Even a long T shirt would be better than being naked.

Clothing theft used to be a problem back when people used clotheslines. My grandmother lost a load of diapers and granddad’s work clothes that way during the depression. They didn’t have diapers for the kids for a few days.

Nope, just your clothes get raptured! They were so holey!

slaps myself for you

In the Hackensack, New Jersey library? So totally screwed.

I’m at my desk at work. I actually have a complete set of clothes, including undies and shoes, nearly identical to what I’ve got on right now, in my drawer right here. It’s unlikely anyone would even notice.

Security cameras would record the disappearance for me too and the lack of a security badge would eliminate me just slipping out, even if there were no one else here.

What happened to you to require this thorough of a backup?

There was once an incident (water leak) in which I needed to stay at work overnight to cover and rescue electronics and other valuable stuff (well, I could have gone home, but we finished very late and I’d just have to come right back so I slept under my desk instead). Ever since then I’ve kept a full change of clothes in my office just in case it happens again (it’s an old building, odds of it occurring again at some point in the future are near 100%).

Plus, it’s good to have extra clothes if anything I’m wearing somehow gets ruined on the drive in or sometime during the day.

And they/we are all friends of Idle Thoughts. Coincidence?

I’m at home, alone, with the closet full of my clothes right next to me.

I’d be utterly, totally screwed.

Not because of the being naked thing. But because something that goes against everything I thought I knew about the world just happened to me, and there’s nobody around to witness it. I’d be that guy, ranting and raving about how everything we know is wrong at the street corner in no time—either because I’d go mad from the knowledge that the world is completely different from the way everybody thinks it is, or because I’d believe I’ve lost my mind already.

Other than that, though, I’d be OK. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m in my office with the closed door and my lab coat is hanging on a hook. Plus my graduation regalia is there too, so I’d even been warm and toasty.

HOWEVER, now that you’ve put this thought in my head, I’m never leaving the safety of my office.

Fine, since I’m sitting on my bed, watching hockey, and my closet is right across the room. I’d be really freaking cold. (And pissed, because I paid over a hundred bucks for this jersey)

Learned something.
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Just curious sitchensis, do you also have suspendies and a bra? :smiley:

Book 'em, Danno!
I’m at home, would just need to run upstairs to get more clothes. I also have a full set of clothing at work because I sometimes bike in & it’s easier to leave clothes there than carry them with me; there’s a locker room with a shower, too. If I could get the shirt on quickly, hopefully the back of my chair will cover the rest until I had the time to get my pants on.

No problem, since I’m home and the curtains are drawn. There’s no one to gawk at my unclothed body except for the cats, who probably think that clothing is a strange human aberration.

I knew there was an upside to keeping a pile of used scrubs in the corner of my office.