Act 2, Scene 40: “Sweatpant Nation”

TRL has taken to only wearing sweatpants. A pair of black fleece REI midweights. Why? Because of the suburbs and his children, he tells himself.

More specifically, because he’s growing fat, not having to walk anywhere anymore. There is nothing more comfortable for the fatty than a nice soft waist-stretchable pair of sweatpants!

And because anything he wears gets gooed by C&E. Breakfast, drool, crayons, apple sauce, milk, etc., so TRL reasons it is best to limit the damage to one garment.

And because outside TRL and S’s front door, there is no one to see him. Just a quiet empty street. No foot traffic, no cafes to walk to.

And even when TRL gets in the car to run an errand – going to the bank, CVS, Stop & Shop, the local coffee shop to get more ground coffee – there is nobody he knows to see him, and an entire population also wearing sweatpants. Now, this isn’t Boulder, CO. We're not talking sleek athletes in sexy gym attire. This is the suburban dwellers - the seniors, the middle aged, the car bound, the paunchy. And TRL has joined their ranks.