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Missed Connections Poster: You are a mystery to me…but not enough to email you
Rachel Markowitz | June 27, 2007
I know I’m not alone here when I say that reading the Craigslist “Missed Connections” is a guilty pleasure. All are amusing, some are romantic, others outright ridiculous. Many are poorly spelled. But there’s one post that I keep seeing, every few weeks or so. Have any of you seen it too? Note the poster’s misspelling of “Gardens.”
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I see so many beautiful women in my neighborhood walking to the subway in the mornings, but rarely does the opportunity present itself for a quality conversation. Perhaps we could start one here?
When I first noticed this post repeating, I thought, ok, maybe this guy is just having a rough couple of months. But then one day someone posted a response. It said something to the effect of, “dude you’ve been posting this for like three years. Give up already!” Ouch. Can’t a guy post on Craigslist these days without being judged?
So I wonder, what is this guy’s deal exactly? Has he been posting this for years in hopes that maybe one day, someone will finally respond? Does he spend his days waiting by his inbox, nuzzling his monitor thinking, maybe today is the day!
Or do I have it wrong completely? Maybe this guy gets a ton of responses. Maybe the “beautiful women” he mentions are lonely and browse Missed Connections when they should be working. They see his post and think, perhaps it’s me he’s looking for! And they respond. In fact this guy gets so many responses that he’s drowning in Bococa hotties. So this guy would be an idiot not to keep posting, right? I mean he’s unlocked the secret to bagging high-quality Brooklyn women. He has it all figured out.
Whatever this guy’s deal is, I think that if he’s gonna keep clogging up Missed Connections with his posts, he should at least vary it up a little bit. How about substituting the word “beautiful” with “foxy”? The word “maybe” with “perhaps”? But hey, we live in a cut and paste world. And Craigslist is no different.
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so are you going to respond and get the story for us?
Sorry. I’ll write a new post, I’m buying a thesaurus this weekend.
“Foxy” is a word that is not used often enough. I’m going to do my best to bring that back. That, and the low five. And “give me some skin.”