I reacquainted myself with it last night, while showing it to Zach for the first time. I find this section to be both funny and incredibly sad. It is basically people posting looking for a person that they felt they had connected with for a short moment, and are looking to get to know that person. The one I read last night went something along the lines of a man who was pumping gas and saw a woman (also pumping gas) who he thought was driving a Toyota, and basically to the point that he felt like there was something there...and to contact him to grab a drink.
Now here is my thought on this type of thing. So this guy is searching a some girl who got gas at a Chevron on whatever date. Really, what is the likelihood of someone reading one of these posts and thinking, "Hey, that was me! I remember that guy!!!" Slim. Or the chance that the girl/guy that is being talked about actually realized that there was a 'connection' made? I have (more times than I like to admit) had experiences where I will be at a store or somewhere and later, someone will ask me what I was up to there, and why I didn't say 'Hi' when I saw them. I honestly don't remember seeing that person, even though, according to them, I made eye contact.
It makes me wonder how often people read more into something than what is really there. So you are pumping gas, and let the other person go ahead of you, or hold open a door for someone, something to that point of just being polite- how often is more read into that? I would be willing to bet that a majority of these 'missed connections' are very one sided. How sad is that? Very sad.
And actually, how many posts where there before craigslist decided that this topic needed its own niche? I mean, really? I didn't have any idea this even existed until I was playing on craigslist a while ago and stumbled onto it. Do real people actually read this section, hoping to find someone? I think there might be.
And some of them are slightly funny...or gross, depending on how you look at it. If you have time, go take a look at some of them...they might be about you. How strange would that be?
