Connection Made

So...
I....
posted a missed connection ad.

And made a connection...

Not like that you dirty kids.
Brandon (Milteer, not Wallace) and I were chillin like we usually do. Y'know playing video games....shopping for video games....talking shit on everything. In any case, we wanted to go to gamestop because I had a stack of trades, and Little Big Planet was on sale (as much as $40 can be counted as a sale...).
So I asked Brandon which one he thought we should go to (because in KY, there has to be one place, at least, that has two gamestops, instead of two starbucks, next to each other. Believe me there were four places like that once upon a time {i WOULD be the one to know}). So we went to the one he thought we should go into.

As I entered I immediately noticed the cashier. A divine light must have shown down from the hole in the ceiling, they have been meaning to fix. It would definitely account for the flock of doves flying by and the mysterious angelic chorus perched on the roof. Anyway, she was a cute girl with (fiery) red hair and a pink shirt.
I don't really know how to describe people too well, so I'll let your imagination run wild with that broad, generalized description.

We walked in, stack of games in tow and did what every young man in the presence of a pretty woman would do...ignored that fact that I noticed her.
She took my games, told me I could look around while she tallied up the trades and i did so.
Of course, me, being me (is that the right amount of commas? Maybe, I should add more, perhaps), couldn't help but dance around the store like I have my own theme music.
I spend a little time looking for the right game to accompany Little Big Planet keeping in mind what I assume will be my trade amount.
So I pick up Little Big Planet and Skate (because i haven't picked it up yet and i liked the demo) and scoot right along, with a sidelong kind of smile as the cashier (i've spotted her name, Rachel, on her nametag) returns it.

I tell Brandon in the car that I think the cashier is cute.

He probably didn't think anything of it.
Too bad he didn't know I was just weird enough to post a missed connection on craigslist.

So i put up this ad and immediately i get a reply.
A mysterious message from a certain "goddess5566". I play along because the email is signed simply with an "A".

I get on aim, find her and the first thing she says is, "you got any pics? I got some right here" (there was a link to it)
It takes me immediately to a webcam dating site.

So i said "fuck that shit" and forgot about it.

Until about 23 hours later when I get another email. this time from a Rachel, subject line identical to my craigslist missed connections post.

I open it, a little skeptical. But sure enough she found the post. From one of her coworkers who sent it over to her.

She is already spoken for.


No less, i have learned a lesson. Whether there is any value...probably not.
"even weird people can believe they have won, briefly. But in the end....no"