# If you could be invisible for 1 day, where would you go and what would you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 2, 2020, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774 "2020-01-02T09:58:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/21 "2020-01-02T23:20:21Z")
I’m with **naita**. I’d head straight for the nearest optics lab. Everyone in these superpowers discussions always says that they wouldn’t want to risk the possibility of becoming a lab subject. Whyever not? It’s the most useful possible thing I can think of to do. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/22 "2020-01-02T23:21:33Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Assuming some normal physical limits are not in play (travel time from my home to where I would want to be invisible, stuff like that…). > > I would spend the day in the presence of Trump, making things move around to drive him crazy, dropping his trousers during a TV appearance, punching him repeatedly in the face (and other places), jacking his mouth around so he couldn’t speak intelligibly, pulling his hair. > > Generally causing mischief so that it appeared obvious to everyone that they needed to put him in a padded room. Works for me, love the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/23 "2020-01-02T23:39:05Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’m with **naita**. I’d head straight for the nearest optics lab. > > Everyone in these superpowers discussions always says that they wouldn’t want to risk the possibility of becoming a lab subject. Whyever not? It’s the most useful possible thing I can think of to do. As long as you can go home at the end of the day and not be locked up in a cage when they aren’t experimenting on you. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/24 "2020-01-02T23:51:34Z")
**madmonk28** took my idea, so I’m heading to the Senate to do the same ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/25 "2020-01-02T23:55:06Z")
Roam the halls of government. Or hang out in the ladies locker-room. One of the two. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/26 "2020-01-03T00:48:14Z")
Mitch McConnell’s office. I am going to be on his leg for as long as I can get away with it. I want to know what his plans are and, above all, what the heck is his real motivation? Because I’m jimmied if I can figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/27 "2020-01-03T01:13:23Z")
Can’t walk around in fog or other high humidity - condensation on skin would show. Can’t walk in sand or mud - footprints. Without invisible footwear, my soft feet won’t do well in most outside places. Driving or cycling while invisible would be noticed. Political shenanigans sound fun and useful but, even invisible, would I trip laser and IR alarms in security zones? Volunteer for a lab and they might never let me leave. And I’ve no pets to frighten. What a pickle! Say my organic bodyparts vanish. Do my cyborg replacement bits remain visible? False teeth floating in air… ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/28 "2020-01-03T01:54:09Z")
Visit my pastor. Move a few things around on his desk. Nothing too extreme. A harmless prank for a man who believes in miracles. Similar to Marty McFly posing as an alien spaceman in George’s bedroom. 😉 [https://images.app.goo.gl/Cm3QcFhDpEvPTBJ67](https://images.app.goo.gl/Cm3QcFhDpEvPTBJ67) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/29 "2020-01-03T02:00:53Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I’d hang out in the White House to learn people’s passwords to their email accounts and then forward the entire contents to the NY Times, Washington Post, and several other outlets. That’s good, but I would be focusing on shadowing the Orange One, so I could spill even more dirt on him. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/30 "2020-01-03T02:05:49Z")
Area 51. I don’t expect to actually find anything but my curiosity is killing me. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/31 "2020-01-03T03:11:05Z")
Definitely hang out at the White House all day. Whisper “Guilty…Guilty…GUILTY” in Donald’s ear. Spell “QUID PRO QUO” with his french fries. Tie his shoelaces together as he’s having a sitdown meeting. Add “I am the Antichrist” to one of his tweets. When he goes to bed stomp around his bedroom and with a spooky voice say “I am Abraham LINCCCCCCCCC…oln…You have defaced my HOUUUUUUSSSSSSSE…I won’t leave you until…until…until you run naked to the North lawn and jump into the fountain.” Then as he stands behind a podium get behind him and give him a giant wedgie. I wish it could be a whole week. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/32 "2020-01-03T03:37:31Z")
If I was also impervious to cold and wet, I would venture into the woods where Dena swears she saw an UFO, but yeah it would be cool to see the fox, and owl and deer mosey along in the middle of the night. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/33 "2020-01-03T22:53:08Z")
I just thought of a better one: Go on one of those ghost hunter type shows and really fuck their world up! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774/34 "2020-01-03T23:28:34Z")
I would get into the IRS with my phone (also invisible) and photograph the last 8 years of the orange menace’s tax returns, which I would send to the NYTimes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-invisible-for-1-day-where-would-you-go-and-what-would-you-do/845774.md?page=1)