# Can you still put your pants on standing up?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-put-your-pants-on-standing-up/999511>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 28, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-put-your-pants-on-standing-up/999511 "2024-03-28T17:18:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-put-your-pants-on-standing-up/999511/61 "2024-04-01T23:15:35Z")

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> [@Mama\_Zappa](#):
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> As far as why it’s harder to put the pants on sitting down: I can’t lift my legs up as high, from a seated position. So I have to basically throw the pants down onto the floor, and lift my foot until it’s sort of over the pants leg, then do a combination of lifting the foot / tugging the pants until the foot is the whole way through. It’s easier to lift my foot up when I’m standing.

And then you have to stand up to get them over your butt and waist anyway.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-put-your-pants-on-standing-up/999511/62 "2024-04-01T23:18:52Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> And then you have to stand up to get them over your butt and waist anyway.

True, though then there’s no issue with balancing, since both feet are on the ground at that point.

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**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-put-your-pants-on-standing-up/999511/63 "2024-04-02T01:46:39Z")

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I can put my pants/socks on while standing up. I can also still skip [Do you remember how to skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179), but I cannot put my pants on while skipping, at least not deliberately.

(My daughter made me skip, gallop, double-skip, and canter when I mentioned the thread about skipping. It was like a whole Ministry of Silly Walks demonstration.)

> [@OttoDaFe](#):
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> Perhaps not much longer, though: apparently the disc between my last lumbar and first sacral vertebrae has degenerated to the point that the channel for the primary leg nerves has collapsed. Still working on determining a way forward (if any).

My wife was having trouble walking due to a similar issue. She recently had surgery to install hardware to space her L4 and L5 vertebrae back out and fuse them. She’s doing much better now, several weeks post-surgery.

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-put-your-pants-on-standing-up/999511/64 "2024-04-02T02:03:34Z")

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I put pants on one leg at a time, just like everybody else. The difference is that once my pants are on, I make gold records!

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