Craigslist can be useful when you need tickets to a concert or a part for your snowblower.
It can also be incredibly interesting. The section called “missed connections” is full of stories of unrequited lust. Go check it out. We’ll wait.
Posters seem convinced that if only circumstances were slightly different, they’d be sharing their lives with complete strangers. In that case, they wouldn’t be strangers anymore, but you get the idea.
Sadly, there’s a fatal flaw in nearly every tale. At Trending Buffalo, we sometimes break down these “relationships” and point out why they seem unlikely to succeed.
For the uninitiated, each headline includes the following information:
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SPECIFIC LOCATION: where the encounter “happened” (but usually didn’t)
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M4W: “man talking about a woman”
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AGE of poster
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GENERAL LOCATION: town, neighborhood, etc.
This one is missing a few of the basic elements but we won’t let that stop us.
Here’s the same ad in a font large enough to actually read.
I don’t think this would ever work, but I at least want to put it out there. You gave me a private dance sat, it’s probably cause I paid you but I thought there was something there. You said you didn’t have a boyfriend and wouldn’t be able to have one doing that job. Well that’s wrong cause I am right here. I am very open. You had short blonde hair. Told you my name was bob. There is just something about strippers that turns me on.
Let’s turn this post into a conversation.
I don’t think this would ever work, but I at least want to put it out there.
Good call. It won’t.
You gave me a private dance sat, it’s probably cause I paid you but I thought there was something there.
It’s definitely because you paid me. That’s what I do for a living. I didn’t wake up that morning thinking “man, I can’t wait to grind on some creepy stranger today.”
You said you didn’t have a boyfriend and wouldn’t be able to have one doing that job.
That’s what I say to guys who pay me for a lap dance. Very few relationships begin with lap dances.
Well that’s wrong cause I am right here.
Yep, there you are. That really doesn’t change anything.
I am very open.
Go on.
You had short blonde hair.
I know.
Told you my name was bob.
And I told you my name was Cinnamon. People say lots of things.
There is just something about strippers that turns me on.
Yes, Bob, the entire industry is built upon that premise.
