I hate pants, so as far as Im concerned, I empathize with your pant-related annoyance; though it did spawn from a positive scenario, such mishaps are inevitable.
In related news, I kept reading the thread title without reading the post, and thinking to myself something of the effect of an old sagey obi-wan saying 'these arent the pants youre looking for'. Curse your provocative thread titles, curse them I say... curse them as though they were pants!