This evening I was checking out the local missed connections section on CL (not going to defend myself on this, except to say that the posts can be pretty cute sometimes).
One post in particular caught my eye. To summarize, a guy posted under casual encounters and one of the respondents (with pic) is his own mother :eek:. (The ad has since been flagged - I actually saved a copy to Word because I thought it was so good. So I can post it if anyone wants to rubberneck).
The ad was a blend of convincing horror with an undercurrent of self-awareness that made me think it might’ve been crafted. If a fake, it a very good one, so I shot the guy a jokey email:
I continue to browse through the MC section, and see several funny, absurd ads posted by “M4W - 36”, as the post I’d responded to had been, thus confirming to me that I did have a merry prankster on my hands.
Within a half hour, I get a reply back from the guy:
I’m rather nonplussed that he could go from literary brilliance to this detritus. Also, infamous line? Then I spy a CL ad regarding the poster exposing him as a fake. He’d been ripping his ads straight from url=craigslist: best-of-craigslist]Best of Craigslist!
Our correspondence went as follows:
WTF? You get caught out for being an sneaky fake, and you retort that I have conversational issues? I have no words.
*Mind you, I’m swallowing my own embarrassment for thinking he was a “real fake”. Tastes an awful lot like sauerkraut.