posted January 10, 2015 09:33 AM            

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Originally posted by Jerseyshore:
I am an avid reader of missed connection ads. I love the romantic notion attached to it. Plus, I secretly hope a man is so moved by me he felt the need to place one

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posted January 10, 2015 04:10 PM              

Many don't know about them so I would imagine not.

posted January 10, 2015 10:34 PM            

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Originally posted by Barbiegirl19:

I mean unless you told the person that you write the ad for. Why not be upfront and tell the person. I don't get why people post there.

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posted January 10, 2015 11:36 PM              

I just don't understand the point. The person whom it's been written for 9.9 times out of 10 isn't going to see it. No one hardly knows about them or is automatically checking Craigslist for one lol. Why waste the effort on an unlikely response.

I read them to laugh my tail off honestly. A lot of them come across as really desperate and downright creepy. Too many spammers on Craigslist. I wouldn't do it or trust it.

posted January 11, 2015 12:47 AM            

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Originally posted by Barbiegirl19:
I know what they are, AG.

I just don't understand the point. The person whom it's been written for 9.9 times out of 10 isn't going to see it. No one hardly knows about them or is automatically checking Craigslist for one lol. Why waste the effort on an unlikely response.

I read them to laugh my tail off honestly. A lot of them come across as really desperate and downright creepy. Too many spammers on Craigslist. I wouldn't do it or trust it.

There may or may not be success stories. I would think not. Of course this is just my opinion. Someone else may feel entirely different.

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posted January 11, 2015 12:03 PM            

I'm an eternal optimist & hopefully always will be. The world needs more romance in my humble opinion.

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Originally posted by Barbiegirl19:
I know what they are, AG.

I just don't understand the point. The person whom it's been written for 9.9 times out of 10 isn't going to see it. No one hardly knows about them or is automatically checking Craigslist for one lol. Why waste the effort on an unlikely response.

I read them to laugh my tail off honestly. A lot of them come across as really desperate and downright creepy. Too many spammers on Craigslist. I wouldn't do it or trust it.

There may or may not be success stories. I would think not. Of course this is just my opinion. Someone else may feel entirely different.

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posted January 11, 2015 01:16 PM              

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Originally posted by Jerseyshore:
Perhaps 9.9 wouldn't see it, but what about the one who does? Chemistry and romance isn't logical. Would be a shame to shut out hope because it is 'wasted effort'.

I'm an eternal optimist & hopefully always will be. The world needs more romance in my humble opinion.

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I'm quite optimistic myself however I am a realist.

Why get your hopes up on something that is realistically more likely to go against your favor? The risks and disappointments are too high. I'd rather make it a happened connection right then than a missed one. Like getting the last Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut before it's gone, you take it now or you risk it being gone when you come back. Most would take it now. Take chance over risk. That's all I've been trying to say.

I agree the world does need more romance, more love. But unfortunately our world is full of hate and evil alongside the good. We need both in order to learn, to grow. We live in reality after all.

posted January 13, 2015 12:50 AM            

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Originally posted by aquaguy91:
I wonder if those ever work? I was just thinking of this today.

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posted April 18, 2015 07:43 AM            

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Originally posted by aquaguy91:
I wonder if those ever work? I was just thinking of this today.

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I wonder too...

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This 'Missed Connection' Is Heartbreaking In The Best Possible Way

Once in a while, you spot a Craigslist "missed connection" story that's so lovely, you want to believe it's true -- and not the work of some bored writer.

The "missed connection" below certainly fits the bill.

In the post, the man recalls how he married a woman back in the 1980s to win a bet placed by a college buddy. "Half-drunk, and half-in love" when they said "I do," the pair rushed to have the marriage annulled three days later. Distance and time had separated them until just recently, when the man says he spotted his "ex-wife" on the L Train in New York City.

Instead of chasing her down, the man took to Craigslist to ask her for coffee -- and we're sure glad he did. The "missed connection" he wrote is a beautiful read. It's since been removed from Craigslist, but you can read it in its entirety below:

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In the winter of 1989 I transferred to NYU from the University of Southern Maine, intent upon studying poetry, nursing youthful fantasies of literary success. I was terribly nervous about making friends -- in addition to submerging myself in a completely unfamiliar, and overwhelming urban environment, I was terribly shy, often displaying a reluctant timidity towards strangers.

You lived in the same dorm building as me -- a mishmash of dimly lit and shabbily painted converted office space on West 10th street. You, and a small handful of high school friends, had come to college together from Chicago. You had red hair, your favorite band was The Replacements, you were studying French, and we were introduced by my new roommate.

You and your Chicago friends were nice enough to take me out on the town several times in those first few weeks and in the process we struck up a casual romance -- although the youthful pressure to keep things “casual” often yanked at the oversensitive ventricles of my heart.

It was on a Sunday evening, when a small group of friends was smoking weed in your dorm room and watching Brewster’s Millions, that one of our friends proposed the bet: the first person in the room to get married would be awarded $30 — the cost of a New York State marriage license. The next morning, inspired as much by the novelty of the bet as my affection for you, I asked if you wanted to go to City Hall and get married -- you said yes.

The Justice of the Peace looked like Hank Williams Jr. and reeked of whiskey. We signed the marriage license, and on our walk back uptown to Washington Square, we ducked into bar after bar, brandishing our new union as a means of getting free drinks. Half-drunk, and half-in love, we returned to the dorm room, where our roommates, laughing through their disbelief, pooled together thirty dollars.

Fearing our family’s reactions -- three days later we had the marriage annulled, and again, this time with paperwork indicating our “separation,” managed to get some free drinks out of the deal. For the rest of the semester I slept in your bed, jokingly referring to you as my ex-wife.

Two weeks before the end of the semester, I received word that my estranged father -- an ex-pat living in rural Japan, was dying of cancer of the esophagus. I left immediately to go to his bedside, watching him teeter on life and death for the next six months. As this was pre-internet, and my father’s village lacked even telephone lines, we lost touch.

That brings me to today. This morning, the L train was typically hectic -- car after car was so packed to the brim with people, that I was waiting patiently for a less crowded train to board. At one moment, looking up from my newspaper, we made eye contact — you were packed in like a sardine among the other morning commuters. I saw the flash of recognition in your eyes, our jaws dropping in disbelief.

I stayed in Japan for another eight years, before returning to the United States where I built a decent career writing, not poems, but teleplays. I have lived all over the country, but only recently moved back to New York. I am once divorced, and have two daughters.

When I saw you, I felt all those years folding in on themselves, and have now spent the entire morning wondering what your life is like. It is perhaps an absurd suggestion, but would you maybe like to get a cup of coffee and catch up on a quarter century of life?

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posted April 26, 2015 02:08 AM            

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Originally posted by Odette:
Nvm old thread!!
Did you end up posting that ad AG?

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