the most fucked up Missed Connection i've ever seen
pittsburgh.craigslist.orgI was squirming in a pile of vomit outside the Cricket Lounge - m4w - 27 (Bloomfield/Oakland)
It spewed out like the wrath of God, carrying the fury of the devil and life itself with it as it splattered across the asphalt. Nine hobos all in a circle, losing their minds as they were, each of them, sucked in and caught up in that emetophiliac temple. I don’t know how I got caught up in this. Something is happening, and I am unable to explain it. These vomitoriums are commonplace now as they were in the days of Nero and Caligula. The kids are worse than the hobos though. I was ingesting large quantities of table salt in the Famous O’s bathroom. When I came out I saw it. Men whose bodies have become twisted and emaciated by the poisons saturating the air; David Icke was right, these kids of Oakland all look like reptiles with iPads for faces; in a way it is sweet that they look at every piece of innocuous minutia of existence and capture it forever in an instagram, in a way it is sweet, in a way it is devastating; I don’t know why they’re collecting this information, and I fear to know what they are using it for. I of course was one of them at one time, if not one of them, then I was in their company. I took some bad acid at the Wakka Flakka Flame show and I’ve been getting headaches ever since. I don’t feel that way much more. Now I just feel sick a lot. You helped me for awhile, and reminded me to take my medication via text message - it was three times a day; I wanted to avoid those headaches, they were nasty and debilitating, black-masses steaming my frontal lobe like a bag of…. Remember that time I was talking to you on the phone and I suddenly became ill? I woke up at the Pizza Hut, naked and rolling in broken glass, my head shaved where they put the stint in. Before they called the police I was instagrammed of course. I don’t know what for. You bailed me out of county. You said it would be the last time you would do that. But next week when it happened again, this time at that Kinko’s when I began mutilating my body in the back of the store through a series of deep and precise paper-cuts to my genitals, you did it again; You said I was taking advantage of our relationship status on Facebook. Perhaps I was. Perhaps it was a mistake to do all the things I did, but I kept doing them, for whatever warped reason I kept doing them. It’s just those heights of love, destructive and merciless, that makes a person do those things they do and while they’re still in love the other will keep doing those things they do. The other will be taken advantage of in the course of this hurricane, and they’ll pick up and leave one day, and the other will be on Missed Connections at 4 in the morning. I just wanted to impregnate you, and then not pay child support; it was in my genes to do so. Now I just want pancakes.
“Grand Central is one of my favorite places in the whole wide world! My boyfriend and I always take the train in from Union Station New Haven when we come into the City. No matter how many times we pass through Grand Central, we always take pictures in the Main Concourse. It never gets old for us. On one trip in February, he encouraged me to make silly faces just be silly in the Main Concourse, took some pictures, and then we rushed to the 6 train to get to Yankee Stadium for a tour. While on the subway, we were reviewing the pictures we had taken at Grand Central and were surprised that one of our pictures really came out magical! Not only did we get a great shot of me making funny faces in the concourse, but we also noticed that because of the lighting and the rushed way my boyfriend took the picture, he had created a really cool exposure with another person running to make his train. It really captured Grand Central in all its glory for us!”
—Submitted by Meredith
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Wishes.
Life isnt always happy endings and smiles. But having someone to have random 5 minute talks, meet up for hugs just because we can, and know that who cares as long as we’re smiling things are gonna be okay seems like a pretty good way to be. Just wish I would’ve been awake earlier, that would have made this way better.
Missed connections success stories?
Re-posting this one last time, because I still need sources:
For something that I’m working on, I’d like to talk with anyone who has replied to/been replied to in regard to a Craigslist missed connection post.
Doesn’t matter if nothing came of it, or you’re married — as long as you interacted with someone on the other end, I’d love to hear from you.
portland flea - m4m
portland.craigslist.orgI finally had a missed connection written about me!!! Dreams really do come true!