A Blind Date (with Craig’s list)

Guy: So you know how my friends and I have that annual post-college Christmas retreat?
Me: yea.
Guy: Well this year my friend X (remember him?) decided he was going to post an ad on Craig’s list in order to get a date for it.
Girl: Seriously?
Guy: Yea, it was a perfectly normal ad designed to attract only perfectly normal girls.
Me: and?
Guy: It’s been up less than 16 hours and he already has four girls!
Me: No WAY are they normal girls.
Guy: Yes they are. They even sent pictures—they’re all cute—and he’s been emailing them.
Girl: What kind of NORMAL girl responds to a CRAIG’S LIST AD?
Guy: One is a student at UMD—studying finance and international affairs. Another one is a nurse. See? NORMAL girls.
Me: I bet their pictures are from like 10 years ago—before they gained three hundred pounds.
Girl: Yea these girls have GOT to be weird—no normal girl responds to a Craig’s list ad for a date.
Guy: Yes they do! One of the girls said she was looking for Red Skins tickets and accidentally came across his ad. She said she’s not the kind of girl that responds to personal ads—but she decided to do it just this once.
Me: Translation: when a girl says she’s not the kind of girl that responds to person ads that means SHE’S EXACTLY THE KIND OF GIRL THAT RESPONDS TO PERSONAL ADS.
Guy: Nope, he’s been talking with them and they ARE normal. Actually all of us guys sat down with him last night to write responses to each girl.
Me: So each of these girls is basically corresponding with 4 guys, in the form of one person?
Guy (self satisfied smile): Yes.
Me: Well which one is he going to pick?
Guy: He’s going to go on dates with all of them and then pick one.
Girl: (Rolls her eyes)
Me: I can’t believe these girls are doing this; they’re not even using a lame filter like e-harmony.
Girl: Just remember you get what you pay for. And Craig’s list is free…
Guy: This is turning into possibly the greatest social experiment of our time. Last night we all determined: “X sat on the couch all afternoon and met two cute girls today. We’re never leaving the house again.”


This is how twenty something year-old guys in our generation think.
(I’m scared for the future of procreation.)

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