Why Would a Man Wear Short Pants to the Airport?

Or how to not be an old infant.

Mosab Alkhteb
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readSep 28, 2022

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This article is a rant.

And to some people, it may seem too traditional and outdated.

But someone needs to talk about this. And I believe I am not the only one who feels this is a serious issue men are facing nowadays in society.

In fact, it is not an issue in and of itself. It is a symptom of a deeper problem though it may sound trivial and meaningless.

Who cares about what you wear anyway?

Well, you should.

I was traveling from Abu Dhabi, a city where multiple nationalities live peacefully.

Abu Dhabi, and UAE in general, is hot. But it was not a justification for what I saw. Not to mention we were traveling early in the morning, meaning we arrived at the airport approximately after 2 a.m.

What did I see?

A guy, probably in his 30s or late 20s, was wearing short pants, above his knees, sitting and folding his legs in a way that shows his ass because the pants’ texture was so thin. And the way he was sitting was too “comfortable”.

His thighs are already visible because the poor tailor had no time to make something longer. And he did…

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Mosab Alkhteb
ILLUMINATION

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