The best Tippecanoe County Valentine’s Weekend missed connections

With all the love in the air this past weekend, I wanted to make a little investigation. There are singles reveling in their freedom, couples celebrating their love and then there are people who think they’ve found love at somewhere at some point and try to find their fated soulmate on Craigslist’s missed connections.

To be perfectly frank, I can’t fathom why anyone would resort to this kind of thing instead of actually striking a conversation with them in person when they have the chance. Not to mention, there are plenty of dating apps and sites available nowadays. Nevertheless, postings like this is something that happens rather quite frequently, which gives an insight into one modern day approach in seeking love.

So today I had the opportunity to browse Tippecanoe’s section of missed connections listings and here are some personal faves.

She was “pierced” by this handsome man at the local Meijer. I really liked the use of her word “pierced.” But really, how is any guy supposed to know who she’s referring to? Maybe if she had described his hair, or what shirt he was wearing? Hm, this makes me wonder what he looks like too.

It’s mostly the title of this one that caught my attention, but it was kind of dumbfounding to say the least. This guy is playing a dangerous game here. I mean, what if she’s married for crying out loud? She probably is, or has a boyfriend. I just really don’t get how someone’s first thought when seeing some smoking hot pregnant lady is to hit her up for his own single gains.

In my opinion, this one was more poignant than Twilight’s love story. But the thing is, it’s 2016 now. She knew this guy from over a decade ago, and she’s just now posting about it? He’s most likely gone dude. Probably in another state too. But I guess it never hurts to post things online, and perhaps by happenstance this Mokie would see this post and contact her. Best of luck in finding Mokie, girlie.

I clicked on this title because it sounded a bit Shakepeare-esque, and it turned out the rest of this guy’s style of diction sounds super old fashioned too. My first question was, which bank? Specifying that would have really been a helpful slash useful information. “I am not your kind by birth.” What does that even mean? Unless you’re a different species, I don’t think saying that matters all too much nowadays…

It’s posts like these that confuse the shit out of me. This guy doesn’t provide any information about the whereabouts of where they met nor does he include any information about himself. “It was very discreet, because it had to be.” Sounds a lot like a more vague, less tragic version of Romeo and Juliet. I’m calling it right now, this Romeo’s not going to be able find this chick.

I was a bit confused by this one too. I read “women” and wasn’t sure at first if he was looking for someone specific then realized it was just a typo. In fact this whole post consists of typos, and honestly it was a bit frustrating to decipher this through the lack of proper grammar. If you really want to win the heart of this speedway girl, at least put some effort into making this post more coherent.

I appreciated this one solely because of how less creepy and slightly more normal it sounded compared to the rest of these I found. By the description of this girl, she sounds like a lovely person. “Wanted to ask you for your number but I was too scared.” Awww. Life is too short buddy, I say you should have just gone for it anyway instead posting this now on craigslist. She most likely will never go out of her way to look for posts like this. Now you’re just stuck with asking yourself the “what ifs”.

Okay… so he was with his wife when he saw this chick and now he’s posting this on Craigslist to look for her? Sounds kind of sketchy to me. I can’t help but think that this sounds like you want a little more than just “do dinner.” But I mean I can’t read your mind dude, if that’s what you really want with good intentions then go for it. I suppose there’s nothing wrong with that.

My suggestion for all these people is to download Tindr or go on E-harmony instead of posting stuff like this on Craigslist. They would have a much higher probability and easier time finding “the one” on those sites. Best of wishes to them though.