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(thing) by SmokeyBarnable (5.6 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon Apr 17 2000 at 11:09:50

This is a column in the classified ad section of a local alternative weekly. And maybe in some of the stodgy ones, Elsewhere. People send in short ads which they hope will be read by a specific person they met, but did not speak to, on the bus or at a show or in a café. The ads are wistful little poems, Haiku Prufrocks:

    Saw you Fri. 4/7 Palace Hotel lobby. Me, 
    sports fan. You, wedding guest. Rematch?
    box 18273
    -----------------------------------------
    Renee--Gordon Biersch Friday. I got your 
    name, forgot your number! 
    Kicking myself! PLEASE Call! Dave box 
    18328
    -----------------------------------------
    
    #91Nite Owl, Cross town bus. I asked you 
    out, you told me where to get off. 
    Sorry. Coffee? --Chuck box 12213
    

With material like this around, it's a wonder writers ever get blocked, eh?

(idea) by OckerJoe (1.3 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon Oct 10 2005 at 7:41:23

Of cliches, the one of two boats passing each other at night is perhaps my favorite. In our city scape rushes of busy nine to five, of hurried life our own world don't bother me because I'm short on time and on a mission, how often must one pass, without knowing, the possiblity of magic?

But our humanity has not been lost. There are moments when even the most hurried among us have the sensation of slow motion at the smile of a stranger. There are moments when even the most cynical among us spend the rest of their day wondering what could have happened if only. If only I said something. If only I said something else. If only I had asked for... if only.

That smile is a missed connection. That if only is a missed connection. That haunting of woulda coulda shoulda, that's a missed connection. And most of us, most of the time, let it be. We wish and hope and maybe it'll happen again, but know probably won't; and thus we move on.

But sometimes the urge to connect, to try to connect, is too much. And thus we turn to the hope of a missed connection ad.


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