has anyone ever made a missed connection?
 

or someone made one for you?

i made one after i talked to this girl about calvin johnson because she used work at k records. she spotted me out at this bar and called out to me and bought me a beer and a shot. she was amazingly cute too, but i'm so damn shy that i couldn't ask her out or get her phone number and she left without me ever saying bye.

anyway i'm a dork and made a missed connection. she never responed or probably saw it though.

here it is:
k records girl that i met at the levee - m4w - 26 (williamsburg)

Reply to: pers-771602391@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-07-27, 6:42AM EDT



i know this is lame posting on this, but i thought you were really awesome and cute. i tried to talk to you again, but i was way too shy and then when i finally had the guts to give you a twizzler you were no where to be found. anyway, i think it's awesome that you worked at k records and thanks for the shot of whiskey and the beer just because i had on a beat happening shirt.

heheh awww that's actually kinda sweet.

you know that whole day i wore that beat happening shirt i had good luck. i got 15 bucks in tips and 8 of it was from a guy who said nice shirt. two girls said nice shirt (but of course i didn't say anything to them) and then the girl i like to call the "k records girl" bought me drinks and was actually blushing when talking to me.

i should wear that shirt everyday

"A finger of fudge is good enough to give your kids a treat"*
*from ancient Brit TV commercial

At a mate's birthday at Trash Palace, I had a long chat with this really lovely guy - took his phone number and all. I then found out later that he was fully hetero - such a shame :(

some strange girl made one for me once. she didn't (want to?) realize it wasn't a "missed connection"-- i was fleeing her without being rude.

my neighbor spotted it on the paper and i hid at home that week.

that's the problem with being nice & talking to anybody... weirdos will think you love them.

I only have missed connections with connections that I wanted to miss. Sorry to hear about that uhler.

I was stalked when I worked retail in the 80's, I didn't know it - then 5 years later it turned out she was friends with a friend of mine and she let loose with the scoop - we dated and had some fun.

you mean...you don't love me?

boo hoo hoo

uhler - That sucks. I've been in similar situations, and it feels terrible. But you said she worked at K Records, or still does? There's no way you might be able to bump into her again?

she worked at k and used to live in olympia. she was telling me some funny calvin johnson stories. maybe i'll bump into her again. maybe she goes to that bar often.

i'm sorry. please don't take it too hard. life goes on.

I almost missed a connection in Denver once.

I had to run really fast to the next terminal.

i've nearly missed a connection in denver. crazy airport.

back in september at the national, i met a nice guy standing next to me and got talking. we never exchanged names or anything. super cute, etc etc. i wonder what his name is.

when i saw xbxrx last year, this girl, cute as hell came up to me to chit chat and i blew her off without knowing. it was later that i realized she was hitting on me and i had been a moron.

ehhh, no biggie i guess.

I constantly miss connections. I have an unbelievable knack for it.

aww, xbxrx are awesome live, I woulda kissed her for just being there.

Me too. I never realize when a girl is hooking me.
I'm a twat.

People generally find me disagreeable.Even people that 'love' me. I've never had this 'missed connection' thing happen to me. People never really talk to me, or show much of an interest.There is always someone better to talk to.

so i made another one. she comes into my work at least once a week with her friends for brunch and i think she's so cute, but i'm too shy to ask her out or even talk to her. here it is:
short haired red headed girl at sat. brunch at life cafe. - m4w - 26 (bushwick) you were with three other girls sitting at the big table in the corner. you had on a purple cap and a dress, i think. i just wanted to say that i think you're one of the cutest girls i have seen.

she responded with a nice little email, but i don't think i'm going to respond to her back. i don't want her to know that it was me. oh, and her cap is actually blue. she made it a point to point that out.

I have a problem with the grammar here. You can't MAKE a MISSED connection. That's a contradiction. You can make a connection or you can miss a connection. If you MAKE a MISSED connection, you're making a connection.

I think that is the point, grammar or not. It is trying to emphasize the missed connection and then give that broken punched in the stomach feeling of abject regret and self loathing a potentially dangerous, somewhat delusional, second birthing.

Yeah, but...

there's no such thing as grammar when it comes to craigslist.

but of course you can MAKE A MISSED CONNECTION. it means you met her but didn't have the balls to grab her ass on the spot, then posted an ad on the paper to beg her to please show up in your life again, and then for some demented reason (alcohol, likely, or she thought you were loaded) she deigned contacting you back.

sac up and email back. I'm shy as shit as well, but just go for it man.

oh, that's a good variation. good use of language there. applause.

no but i just made a fake listing on w4m on craigslist.

I made a fake w4m posting in the casual encounters page on craigslist saying I was a 19 year old asian girl who wanted to sex that weekend and play video games.






50 responses in 20 minutes.

Hot girl on New Year's Eve:
rock_god_marty@hotmail.com
Let's do it again.

most people don't really notice me anyway.

seriously, i had a lot of those, all due to shyness. ah well. if i feel really good around someone, i'm not shy anymore, so i don't think it's a big deal.

I was going to hit on a particular friend of a friend but then my lease end and I had to leave San Francisco.

I can't help but think that anyone scanning craigslist for missed connections that feature them, is a little.... odd.

so, in order to find your missed connection notice, she needs to be a little sad and lonely to begin with and so if she answers, its kind of an easy score, is it not?


They have this kind of thing in the daily trashy free newspaper here. Its really really daft.

sorry uhler. you seem like a really decent guy, you should really work up the courage to start and ask girls out. Instead of aiming for spazzys that search craigslist for mention of them.

I don't believe this sentence.

one year and a half ago, during my summer vacation i met one of the cutest girls i've ever seen. we were talking for like an hour and later her friend came and asked me what i think about her, which i thought was a hint. the morning after, she had to leave before i could say goodbye, and i had never seen this girl again - until a couple of weeks ago while i was walking down the street and suddenly bumped into her. i looked into her eyes and she didn't even seem to recognize me, so i just kept walking away. later i found her on facebook and added her as a friend, which she declined. since then i've bumped into her even a couple more times (turns out she moved to my school), but i still don't have the guts to tell her who i am.

do it.
you have to.
i'm a hopeless romantic and thats screaming fate.

right now, I'm winking at you and saying "fuck me fuck me fuck me".

please keep yr pants on, it's only the Tourettes.

Drop everything, find her, and if it turns out that she's not as interested in you as you hoped, kill her.

i'm serious... if i walk the street on a busy day, i have to zigzag all the time because people bump into me, let the door fall shut behind them, never step aside...

when i arrive somewhere i always have to go and tap people on the shoulder, or wave like an idiot, before anyone sees i arrived. it's quite tiring sometimes.

oh, please-- yeah, you may be shy and quiet, but you're absolutely adorable, and i'm sure you have quite the fan club. ok, when you're 19 is hard to compete with the noisy "popular" set and, but give your contemporaries a couple of years to grow out of their silliness and you'll see.