While it seems like a bad place to find a roommate or a girlfriend, the personal section can be an entertaining read. The anonymous postings are similar to poetry on bathroom walls, though on Craigslist, the humor seems less intentional.
Here are some of the entertaining posts I found today.
Some are overeager to show off their writing abilities:
trident bookstore - raven hair - m4w - 27
Reply to: pers-524000709@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-31, 12:33AM EST
Though, really, it was your easy charm that made me interested.
I wish I met you someplace where you weren't working... I don't like to "hit" on waitresses because it seems offensive to bear you in your working den.
Still - my God, I wish you came outside and had a cigarette with me and we had walked and talked endlessly...
I hope I see your eyes dance during conversation again...
Others are difficult to decipher:
I have the sense - m4w
Reply to: pers-521947782@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-28, 6:07PM EST
to recognize that I don't know how to let you go.
This loser for you Elizabeth.
HOT COLLEGE GUY IN GAP - w4m - 21
Reply to: pers-521429627@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-28, 9:00AM EST
wow, you were so hot. i saw you this morning in starbucks in harvard square sipping your lactose-free beverage with such style. you looked a little like a combination between bette middler and ryan phillippe. you were dressed from head to toe in gap apparel. you were surrounded by three beautiful women, but i would gladly be your #4. come lay on a futon and tell that's what she said jokes with me?
Some seasonal:
Merry Christmas P - w4m - 32
Reply to: pers-518842024@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-24, 10:35PM EST
I know I am the furthest thing from your mind now, and most of the time the same is true for me. But, I did think of you tonight as I drove to my cousin's and thought of how much you enjoyed coming with me last year. For the first time in months I teared up a little thinking of you. I've always been a softie about Christmas I guess. A lot has changed since we parted ways and I do believe everything happened for the best. I am happier now than I've been in a long time, but I guess it's just the littlest bit sad that we can't even wish each other a Merry Christmas. I would never contact you again so I'm putting this out here to get it out of my head. Merry Christmas to you.
-M
There are borderline creeps:
Jogger at Day Blvd. - m4w - 38
Reply to: pers-519889829@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-26, 3:55PM EST
I saw you jogging on Day Blvd. all the way to Castle Island and up Broadway on the Sunday before Christmas about 3pm. You had pig tails, blue outfit. I was sitting in the police cruiser killing time and drove by you once or twice:)
I thought you where super cute.
While others have clearly crossed that line:
Please Repost "Daddy's Girl looking for Man of Substance" - m4w
Reply to: pers-521450045@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-28, 9:35AM EST
The post title appeared in w4m on the 26th but had been flaged and I could not see the content. I want to know what that post said.
I am looking to find out if something I said was taken in a way that was not intended from someone special to me that considers her self "Daddys Girl". You stoped talking to me twice and I have no intention on pestering you repeatedly but if a change of heart has occured... I would like to know so I can act on it. But I have to know this from you and you alone.
Some seem lacking:
regattabar server - m4w - 40
Reply to: pers-523394598@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-30, 11:50AM EST
to the very cute, hardworking redhead - was that red? it's hard to see in the dark - who served me at the 1st mccoy tyner show friday. my guest paid so you didn't get an adequate tip. you may have thought you were a bother walking back and forth in front of me. you were not.
And rarely, they are kind of beautiful / probably lyrics stolen from an 80s song:
won't you tell me what you're thinking of? - m4w - 20
Reply to: pers-523112280@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-29, 11:57PM EST
Won't you let me walk you home from school?
won't you let me meet you at the pool?
maybe friday i can
get tickets from the dance
and i'll take you
won't you tell me what you're thinking of?
would you be an outlaw for my love?
if it's so well let me know
if it's no well i can go
i won't make you
And there are a lot like this:
the most beautiful woman at ajc last nite - m4w
Reply to: pers-522562683@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-29, 12:44PM EST
You know who you are!
Gypsy Bar Friday Night - m4w - 28
Reply to: pers-522490007@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-29, 11:16AM EST
You were an amazingly attractive. You looked like you may have drank a bit too much but I can't get you out of my mind. Are you out there?
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