Friday, 01 July 2011
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Craigslist.com: Missed Connections
Missed Connection. W4M.
You: You were reading a Neil Gaiman novel and you kept watching Doctor Who. You were from a really small village in God-knows-where England, going to a conference in Chicago. Oh, and you had a piece of spinach stuck in between your teeth the entire flight but I figured you didn't care.
Me: Scarfed down my vegetarian meals and digestive biscuits before you got your regular meals. Cried over Never Let Me Go and talked your ear off about Virginia Woolf. Pointed and laughed at the flight attendants who were human-illustrating the safety video.
Flight left at 10am from London back to the east coast of the US. It was 90 degrees when we got off the plane.
I'm sure we've all had a missed connection at one point--starting up a really random conversation on the train because your iPod died, exchanging shy smiles with the cute cashier at Starbucks, going out to a party and having the most refreshing conversation with someone in years but forgetting to ask for a name.
I forgot Craigslist ever existed until someone suggested I look for my desired cheap-ish SLR camera on there (Amazon and eBay have failed me in price range, le gasp!). As soon as I hit the front page, I remembered that Craigslist had a "Personals" section which is full of a lot of really cr33py stuff (in my humble opinion, feel free to disagree) when you click on Missed Connections. It ranges from the format above, to "met you at ________, message me!" to short, extremely vague messages like "To sad girl, I am thinking about you and I hope you're okay." I am amazed by how many posts go up every day and that so many people think they felt a connection with someone and missed it, especially when you can filter Craigslist down to a specific area.
And of course, what would a site like Craigslist be without posts that talk about a missed romantic connection, i.e. "I am the one for you," "please go on a date with me," and so forth. I just have to stop for a moment and think... did they reunite? Was it true love at first conversation?
I personally always let a missed connection go. I really love making up a story for that person without anything ruining that mysteriousness.
Have you ever posted or been mentioned in a missed connection on Craigslist.com? Did you find the person you were looking for or respond to it? What was the end result?
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I used to post in "missed connections". I'd post about random people I saw around campus. Not because I thought they were hot and wanted to meet them, just to see if anyone would ever actually find themselves and respond.
Also: Hell yea Publix.
I work at a movie theater and I always hope that one of the cute guys I sell tickets to posts about me. Is that desperate?
that's creepy if someone was being watched so closely that the spinach stuck in the teeth was noticed
I've seen guys that I was temporarily interested in or lust at first sight, but I didn't bother posting about it. I've checked once to see if the cute guy, who looked like jason momoa, noticed me, because I noticed a very tall guy with dreadlocks at a casino, followed him to the lobby because I was starstruck and immediately thought "omg that's jason momoa!"
, and then lost him in the crowd, but quickly saw him again and walked right past him
he was walking with his friend, so that deterred me from talking to him. if he was walking alone, then I would've been less intimidated to approach him
it was about 5 months ago and he's married so...
@MangoWOW@xanga - Has anyone responded? My university actually has something like Craigslist I guess, "I Saw You At ____" which I have never used but I know people have actually met up successfully through it. It's kind of cool on that level.
@voicimessecrets@xanga - No harm in hoping :)
I've never posted in cragslist. It didn't seem to suit me all that much.
I got one once, "You were that hot girl with the big boobs holding the car wash sign on the road. I was driving in a red car and I honked at you. Hit me up!"
My friend sent me the link, then emailed the guy and asked for a picture. She passed it on to me, but I so wasn't interested. Now I check them periodically for a laugh, but that's it.
i'm a waitress and the only jennifer at my store & my friends found a post about me on missed connections. very creepy, in my opinion. haha, definitely didn't respond.
If I were single I'd definitely try my luck and see if I could snag the one(s?) that got away, but for now it's fun to see if anyone would post one about me - not that I try to make "connections" whenever I go out. :)
@P0RCELA1N_D0LL@xanga - Haha I wonder if someone else had your same thoughts and posted?! ;)
@SasGal@xanga - Awww! Have you ever been mentioned again?
@X3shakeiitup@xanga - I think the cr33p13st part about Craigslist.com and figuring out something is about you is that someone was watching you so closely and you probably didn't even notice.
@hommefatal@xanga - Guilty pleasure is definitely one way to put reading through Craigslist personals. One of those "outrageous" ones happened in my local mall's bathroom, and I was just like... oh man I was in the vicinity at that very time. What's the weirdest thing you read? And yes, the sad ones I definitely hope for people to have some kind of closure. :)
@dangelb - No, not so far. There's a crazy lady in this town who hates me and my friends so she'll leave rants about us, hah! It's so stupid because we can all tell it's her... ahhhh some people just need to get a life.
If you don't have the balls to say hi in person, you don't have enough balls to survive a night with me!
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Wow, I never knew that existed.
They sound pretty desperate, especially those who JUST saw them from afar or a glance or smile, but that's it...It would make more sense if they actually had a conversation, but just a glance?I mean it would be pretty awesome to hear that anyone actually found their "soulmate" on there, but I highly doubt it. It sounds actually pretty creepy & pathetic, but I suppose it doesn't hurt to try... Although, that's quite creepy, people posting they saw someone walking down the street with a mere glance that you want to meet up.@Callie - I personally think it's super cr33py, but it happens more than you'd think, especially when new listings get posted up everyday. It was originally started as a way to let San Fran people know about events in the area, but then expanded to be a listing website for EVERYTHING you could think of--internships, apartments, and even pets. Pretty interesting. I read the more sincere sounding listings for missed connections though and wonder how much hope really went into putting that listing up on the site and if they sincerely think they can find "the one" there.
@dangelb - link to this university feature?!!! maybe my future boyfriend saw me already