Two Random Idiocy Stories
Some people can be so stupid....
I posted a Missed Connections ad on Craigslist recently. I do this for fun, mostly because I know they're never going to read/respond to it anyway, but it's fun to act like you're sending a signal out to that certain someone, even if you know it's futile.
Strangely enough, I got kind of excited when a message showed up in my Junk Mail folder with a subject line mirroring my ad. When I opened it, I was greeted with this message:
Dude, you are dumb.
Get a life.
Okay, buddy boy, I get your point. I'll now strive to get that fabulous life you apparently have -- you know, because people with lives put reading Craigslist and disparging people who post there at the top of their fascinating lives.
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Today my office is freakishly empty. One guy who sublets part of our office space from us hasn't shown up at all.
The doorbell rings: it's a client of Absent Guy. She claims to have an appointment. I tell her that he's not here, and that I'm not his secretary so I don't keep track of his comings and goings, but it's not enough for her. But because I'm such a nice guy, I call Absent Guy on his cell phone to tell him someone is here claiming to have an appointment with him.
He asks that she be put on the phone, so I give her the phone. And I hear this:
I came because I live far away and it's hard to get here and I've been calling for the past two hours and no one picks up.
First: Uh, I guess that means you really didn't have an appointment, did you? And second: who the heck decides that, after calling someplace for 2 hours, the best course of action is to drive from "far away" to go to the Office-Where-No-One-Picks-Up-The-Phone? Shouldn't the fact that you've been calling for two hours to no avail send you the message that no one's there?
5 comments:
I think you should forward the message from the first bit to the woman in the second bit. Unprofessional, I admit, but who does that? Just shows up at an office after calling for two hours?
Fro some strange reason, I LOVE reading Craigslist. And yeah, about 2 years ago, I posted a 'missed connection' knowing full-well he would never see it. Oh, and the no-appointment lady... people are stupid.
Actually I have done that. But I was in the neighborhood and just wanted to see why no one was ever able to answer the phone.
Sometimes vanity and common sense don't intersect.
1) I love reading missed connections on Craigs list, and yes, I think I'm secretly hoping that one will be for me.
2) I haven't the words for that women.
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