From an anonymous Craigslist poster...
Is Everyone Sure They Haven't Missed Me?
1.) I was at the Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square on Tuesday, May 25, at about 4:00 P.M. I was wearing a leather jacket and a pair of sneakers. Did anyone miss me?
2.) On Saturday, May 30, I was at the MFA, lurking around in the medieval gallery, hoping for a chance to expound on the development of egg-based paint. Did anyone miss this opportunity? I was wearing a fez and a variety of revolutionary buttons.
3.) Yesterday I was arraigned in Federal District Court for conspiracy to improve the United States Mail. I was clad in an orange jumpsuit. Did any of y'all miss me?
4.) Last Thursday I was on the red line between Davis and Porter. I was reading "Das Kapital" in Dutch and was tripping on NyQuil. I was wearing a vibrantly blue sombrero and an expression of pious complacency. My hands were dirty from a long morning of gardening, and the Six-Million Dollar Man decal on my t-shirt was starting to separate from the fabric. To my knowledge no one caught my eye and smiled at me. Is everyone sure about this?
Is Everyone Sure They Haven't Missed Me?
1.) I was at the Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square on Tuesday, May 25, at about 4:00 P.M. I was wearing a leather jacket and a pair of sneakers. Did anyone miss me?
2.) On Saturday, May 30, I was at the MFA, lurking around in the medieval gallery, hoping for a chance to expound on the development of egg-based paint. Did anyone miss this opportunity? I was wearing a fez and a variety of revolutionary buttons.
3.) Yesterday I was arraigned in Federal District Court for conspiracy to improve the United States Mail. I was clad in an orange jumpsuit. Did any of y'all miss me?
4.) Last Thursday I was on the red line between Davis and Porter. I was reading "Das Kapital" in Dutch and was tripping on NyQuil. I was wearing a vibrantly blue sombrero and an expression of pious complacency. My hands were dirty from a long morning of gardening, and the Six-Million Dollar Man decal on my t-shirt was starting to separate from the fabric. To my knowledge no one caught my eye and smiled at me. Is everyone sure about this?
posted by howtolive.org at
4:42 PM
2 Comments:
Not sure what this anonymous person meant to communicate, but it's well written and interesting in a vague way I can't describe. And, to think, I never consider Craigslist as a Web destination much anymore, esp. not as a source for amusement; only a place to buy and sell items through its classifieds. Thanks for reminding me of the randomness that awaits me on C'list. I used to find the concept of Missed Connections interesting on C'list and other sites -- like so-and-so saw someone of interest and described him or her later in an ad, because they caught their eye on the subway; He or she wanted to address this stranger, but, for whatever reason, were too held back by social barriers, shyness or bad timing. I love those stories. Synchronicity has been the icing on my cake throughout life.
You may enjoy this story of two Metro train commuters. I found a curiously abandoned web page one day and blogged about it here.
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Jen Sardam, at 10:48 AM
That poster was trying to poke fun at the usual "missed connections" posts. It made me laugh uncontrollably, but I don't know why... humor is one of the (relatively few) things I prefer not to analyze.
As for serendipity, I find it more empowering to make things happen than to wait for fate to make them happen, and I've found that if I put myself in circumstances in which opportunities will naturally arise, they do. But a lot of the things that have happened in my life that have defined who I am almost didn't happen, and I often wonder how I would've turned out if I had chosen a different major in school, a different first city to live in, a different first job, etc.
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howtolive.org, at 3:52 PM
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