PassionFile

Sometimes you just have to get a good belly laugh, unfortunately it is sometimes at the expense of others. As my wife was trolling through Craigslist the other night, she came upon some personal ads that suggest people are either smitten, desperate or just plain out of their minds.

Hanging out in the tampon aisle to find your lover

To the delight of many that apparently do the same (that is, read for fun), some of the writers and posters just can't help but express themselves in desperation and with some humor.  One such poster wrote this little ditty; "We never actually had a "missed connection". I read your profile on Match.com. Since then, I have hung out in the tampon aisle at CVS, gone to the group therapy waiting room hoping to find someone reading Bipolar magazine, and driven the roads of Somers looking for a thin-ish sexy dark haired woman driving a mini van with 5 kids and picking her nose. ALL WITH NO SUCCESS. Where are you?

Personal postings on Craigslist: Fun for everyone

Anyhow, I did send you a wink, and if by chance you really do happen to read these postings on Craigslist, I wanted you to know that I thought that your posting was terrific, and had me laughing and smiling, (I even saw the picture where the caption said you were the one in the middle!)
Would enjoy getting to know more, if you are interested. (and if you're really not the one in the middle!) Hope I made you smile too!"

Great stuff! So sad too, considering the thousands if not millions of people that are out there looking for a partner. There is a lot of cross over from the now traditional on-line dating community and you can read it all the time on Craigslist and other local posting services. A lovelorn person might see someone on a subway or on the street and hope (why, I can't imagine) that the target of their affection might be reading their post and respond. Kinda like a blind-date gone horribly wrong, turning into a stalking situation.

We don't often hear about the results of these desperate attempts to connect, unless they make the evening news. Reading the posting above, you can see there is a tongue and cheek attempt to connect, but beyond the possible media attention, it's usually just airtime or a waste of a posting. So why make them? If the effort is made on a dating site, then that is usually where the date is going to develop, or simply vent on Craigslist.

When that service was forced to take down their intimacy section because of the terrible murders that took place, the heat index definitely decreased leaving humor and desperation as the only two aspects to personals of this kind. Sure it doesn't cost anything, but the old adage, it's worth what you pay for it is very true in this case.

30% of relationships begin from on-line dating sites, less than 5% of of Craigslist

Don't let me stop you from taking a break in your busy day to get a good giggle, but just don't spend any valuable time assessing the prospects who post these things. Craigslist has been taking a beating on their postings and have fallen to a far second to Ebay and this is true for it's personals posting too. Relationships develop on-line at approximately a 30% of all intimate meetups. How much does Craigslist produce? Less than 5%. So enjoy the repartee and keep the postings in perspective, but keep your own relationship hopes on social networks and other forums as folks like this fellow that I shared with you, will likely not find his dark haired cougar with five kids in a mini-van!