'I Saw You' on Flickr

A bad night forever immortalized on Flickr. This and a few other nuggets in the photostream devoted to Missed Connections postings on Craigslist.

World's Biggest Missed Connection

{Bonding over Bush. Image courtesy of OurFaves Toronto}

"The World’s Biggest Bookstore last night hosted Missed Connections Addicts Anonymous, the first get-together for poetic souls who post anonymous personal ads on Craigslist Toronto. Invited by Craigslist user “pers-664328682,” they were to make themselves conspicuous while allegedly browsing for books, then post love notes to each other later on Craigslist in hopes of making an actual connection. The Post’s Brianna Goldberg was there to observe..."

M is for...

missed connections.

Like the hundreds, nay, thousands (?) of people in the GTA who lurk around Craigslist during their work I mean spare time, this has to be my favourite section to visit regularly. Like a horoscope, comic, or urban dictionary word of the day, it is a daily dose of romance, just enough to inspire Jane Austen-esque fantasies of two strangers in this big, scary city of ours who just can't make the first move, wish they waited a little longer, or who just need to cry a bit together, and through chance, fate, and a common secret hope, might be able to figure out that elusive thing called... love. Sigh.