Missed Connections

Everyone has a guilty pleasure, a deliciously sinful activity you know is super lame but can't help do anyways.  For some, it is watching crap television such as The Hills, Beverly Hills 90210, or Nancy Grace on Fox News.  For others, its indulging in Krispy Kreme donuts by the baker's dozen, or going shopping with a freshly paid off credit card on a rainy day where you feel a little depressed.

I have many guilty pleasures. 
Because my English-speaking television channels are limited, I have succumbed to the unbearably cute ways of Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl, I have started watching Man vs Wild  for Bear Grylls' cheap grotesque stunts and hot British accent, and I am ashamed to admit this, but I am probably more in love with Gordon "effin" Ramsey than anyone "effin" should be.

But, there is one guilty pleasure I need to confess.  It  may well just be my wierdest guilty pleasure yet:

"Hello, my name is Na and I am addicted to reading the "Missed Connections" forum on Craigslist almost everyday."

For those of you who don't know, which is probably everyone, you can post an ad on Craigslist trying to find someone you encountered briefly.  You can find someone you saw on the subway and didn't have the guts to talk to, or someone you met a party and forget to jot down the name, or someone who lives in your building that you keep missing the opportunity to harrass personally. 

You write an ad that can look something (and normally does) like this:

"To Tall Girl in the Purple Polka Dot Galoshes on Line 6 Sunday evening:
You looked at me and smiled. I tried to smile back too but my needy Korean girlfriend was clinging to my elbow. Thats when I kicked her in the chin and she doubled over in pain and stormed off with my very expensive Coach man purse, and you looked up and smiled. And I smiled back. Anyways, the girl is in jail for stealing my bag, if by any chance you see this, I think you're the one.
Signed: Big Foreigner White Guy with Skull Tattoo on Neck. Hit me up."

Needless to say, these postings do something splendid for me.  Sure, they give me a good laugh-out-loud in my sometimes uneventful mornings as I sip on some freshly brewed black coffee and munch on Hershey kisses, but they also give me great insights into the minds of man.  I don't think I have any friends who would post on these forums hoping against all odds that someone they're looking for is actually looking for them too at the exact same moment.  It is kind of pathetic. Really Pathetic. But it is kind of sweet in the way overly sweet, sugar-coated, hopeless romancess are.  And I am a sucker for romances.

Anyways, I told one of my best buds, lets call him IPretzel, about this guilty pleasure of mine and he posted this ad on Monday in hopes that I would find it during my morning scour of the Craigslist classifieds.  It definitely made my entire day. Thanks bud!