Last year, when my then-boyfriend dumped me, I turned to Craigslist's "Missed Connections" for hope and romance. (I'm not even going to begin to tell you how funny that sentence was to write and then later read aloud...I just hope the experience is the same for you). I enjoy reading MC for the specificity of both the location and the person (and if you haven't, go onto MC right now and you'll know what I mean), as well as for the actual chance of being the lucky gal to have been missed-connected.
This past Wednesday, a alone...forever friend and I discussed how our current goal would be to make missed connections happen everywhere we go. It was a truly great idea, until our drunken-mouths told everyone and a little brat came up with a brilliant plan to bring to light on the Internet more of my alone...forever-ness.
The above picture is of a screenshot of a MC post, that my alone...forever friend and I both read and assumed to be me. After working up the courage, I finally responded to my suitor. Elated to find out the post was about me, I Googled the poster's e-mail address only to find out that the poster was a friend's younger brother, who had seen my MC Tweets and decided to have a little fun with my emotions. I now hate him. But I will survive.
Now, I'm not gonna say I'm sad. It was a funny joke and I now have another alone...forever story to tell to my friends. What does make me upset, is knowing that out there, there are a million missed connections happening each day. Possible alone...forever people running into another alone...forever person and never getting the chance to be together. I've been lucky to have two, really great missed connections in my lifetime. Each time I've written extremely detailed and descriptive posts onto Craigslist only to have received extremely weird responses. But last night, a failed response, wrote me this reply to my post "BEAUT at MagBar":
"...bet you had a lot of rando emails about this. It would have been pretty awesome if it were me. People always talk about getting a missed connection, just to say they got one you know?...Good luck finding your beaut!"
It definitely would have been nice. But for now, I'll stay on the look out for my beaut and possible other missed connections. My advice to anyone reading, beware of faux-missed-connections-suitors (aka this guy) and don't romanticize missed connections, just make them connections and make your life easier.
