Craigslist Files #29: Ugh in the City

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There's nothing more tragically humorous than someone who's enthusiastic about a terrible idea. Craigslist is basically a depository for such people, a place where the worst ideas in the world stand neatly in line, waiting for their turn to be dismissed by a wall of insensitive laughter. The only difference between most craigslist posters and other wrongly enthusiastic people is that craigslisters have an air of desperation about them. Picture, if you will, a 27-year-old accountant coming into her office one day, positively aglow with a creative spark she's sure will start a five-alarm fire of applause. As she describes her plan, she slowly comes to realize by the looks on her coworkers' faces that a stilts-only lane on major commuter roads isn't as ingenious as it sounded that morning in the shower. Still, for a brief hour or two, she was on top of the world and she's still young enough to grow. Put that same scenario in a 45-year-old accountant and you'll have an understanding of what an office made of craigslist would be like.

"Need a girl for friendship"

Hi friends, I am 33 years boy and new in US. I would like to become friend with an American girl.
we can hang out and help each other. I need to talk English more and you need to learn new culture
or maybe new language. :) Justice !
I am so kind and adventurous . lets start our friendship.
BTW, although i like romance but i prefer to postpone it in future so do not worry ;)

Good Luck

One of my favorite things on craigslist is the well-meaning foreigner. I can't imagine how alienating it must be to come to a strange country with only a few words in your lexicon. The tragicomic delight of this post is that, but for the endearing foreignness of it, it fits right along with any other CL post trying to trick a girl into dating an Internet weirdo. The above is basically every Strictly Platonic "Nice dude just looking to hang out with a girl to be friends, honest" post, only put through the lens of Andy Kaufman's foreign man routine.

"Want to make a real Sex in the City group?"

If Sex in the City is something you've loved and wanted to be you're real life (like we have) then shoot us an email so we can get to know you a bit! (Don't worry if you're not totally obssesed with the show, just the general idea!) We're just a couple of girls who are looking to form a social group similar to Sex in the City, where we just get together, gossip, have some drinks and of course talk about dating and sex! Nothing formal just some college girls looking for fellow college girls to have casual social events with where we just chat and party, girls night out style. We are ages 19 to 22 and appreciate if others are ONLY within that age range as well. Preferible if you're in college as well and live in the (city) area. Who knows maybe we'll even go out dancing! Or stay in and watch SITC

College kids are so adorable. They're like unusually tall, drunk 8-year-olds with cell phones and predominantly pajama-based wardrobes. Unlike just about everything else I read on craigslist, I actually hope this post becomes a reality. Maybe I find more humor in desperately depressing things than most people, but I'm tickled bubblegum-pink at the thought of four 19-year-old girls trying desperately to banter and be sophisticated while hanging out in the caf and struggling to remember the sloppy details of tossing that cherry to a Coors-swilling philosophy major because he was "so deep".