Just saw a "missed connections" abt FI

[AmberWaves]

Maaaan. Now that our photog has bailed I was on Craigslist looking for one. Then I decided to go into missed connections to cheer myself up. Well, I saw something that couldn't have been more detailed about my FI. His name, his friend's name, his city, his job... from a girl named MARLO who wants to keep in touch.


Hey, does anyone have any info about an old friend of mine named Paul. I don't remember his last name, but here's some info (from about 5 years ago, when I used to live here).

I just want to say hello. I'm only in town for a few weeks and I'm moving to Seattle. Honestly, any help would be appreciated. I'd really like to see how he is doing and I wish we had kept in touch (I'd really like to say Hi and I hope the world has been kind to you). Thanks and hope to hear from you soon!

-Marlo


So, yes, I responded and said, "Hi, about Paul- I'm marrying him."

What are the odds?

 

[Mara]

what a small world. i would have just passed the note onto him... were you upset to see the note?

one of greg's old long-term girlfriends got in touch with him randomly via work email asking if it was him (she works for a consultant company that his company uses, both work for super large well known corporations and she saw his name in an email thread i guess)...they haven't spoken in like 10 years, used to live together for 3-4 years...he moved out and left the relationship, they lost touch, etc etc. he definitely does not have fond memories of her.

anyway he told me about it and we were like 'so random' (since we had also just been talking about her the other day like 'wonder what happened to her?')...for the record i also told him i was fine with him writing back if he wanted to give an update...he said he didn't think he wanted to write her back and eventually told me he didn't bother. she never wrote again. kinda funny. but i figure in terms of whatever was part of his previous life is his business, not mine and i trust him obviously...i would have been curious if he wrote back what she said in response...but ah well. i agreed with him it was better to just not even go there, the past is the past!

 

[AmberWaves]

Mara, no, I wasn''t mad, I was like, "Wha??" It''s weird seeing something like that come up. So I passed it on to him, and he said she was kind of a bitch who cheated on him.

We think it''s funny that she''s trying to find him now, a few years later.

I think it''s truly a small world. Isn''t it crazy? Like, I know MY Paul, he was YOUR Paul once, too?

 

[sumbride]

I always had lots of "guy friends" and I miss them, but haven''t kept in touch as much as I wanted. I just emailed one a few weeks ago that I found on the alumni page of our university but I haven''t heard from him, which kind of bums me out... especially if his wife is saying "don''t respond!!!"

I guess it depends on what the context of the friendship was. If this person can''t remember his last name, she must not have been that close to him, I''m assuming. Did you tell him about it?

 

[AmberWaves]

Hi Sum, yeah, it''s an ex GF(how does she not remember his last name?), I asked him about her and he was like, yeaaah, she cheated and was psycho! I sent it to him.

 

[Mara]

it really IS a small world out there!!! the really funny thing is that he is from the east coast (and she is still in the east coast from her email work signature) and he is here in the west coast and has been here 8 years and still she saw his name on some email thing. really random!

 

[snlee]

What a small world! I''ve heard about the missed connections on Craigslist but I have never gone on to read them. Maybe I will now as I''m curious to see what''s on there.

So did she write back to you? Wonder what she''ll say.

 

[AmberWaves]

Nope, no response yet! I''m a little curious about it, too!

I LOVE the missed connections. They are so entertaining! Of course, I never imagined one would be to my FI, which is hilarious!

 

[ephemery1]

I'm curious about missed connections now too!! I'll have to go investigate....

When I was first dating DH, I was looking through one of his photo albums and kept seeing this cute blonde girl... she looked SO familiar. I finally asked him who it was, and he said "Oh her? That's Amanda, my high school girlfriend... actually, she went to JMU too (my undergrad), and she would have been your year......"

I looked at the picture again and realized she had been the freshman year roommate of my high school friend who went to JMU with me... in an out-of-state college of 14,000 people, what are the odds?? It occurred to me I probably played drinking games with her while she talked about her ex-bf ("I Never" anyone?)... hehe.....

Then over Thanksgiving we went to the homecoming football game for DH's old high school, and ran into her.... we both kept laughing at how random it was!!

 

[sumbride]

It really is a small world! I ran into one of my highschool friends on a user-group for the database software I use. He''s a consultant, I''m a "user".... It''s very odd because the software has a very limited audience, but I saw his name on a question and thought "there CAN''T be TWO." (weird last name) We chatted for a while via email! It was fun!

 

[AmberWaves]

Isn''t life odd? Take Paul, my FI. We have lived in the same ''hood for years, dated ten years ago, had interacting schedules while we were apart. My boss'' kids saw him at least once a week (he''s a coach). We ended up finding each other on Friendster, he signed up a WEEK before. Weird!

 

[luckystar112]

How random! I''ve always wondered how missed connections could POSSIBLY work....I mean, what are the odds, seriously...lol.
But then again, I live in houston--and most of the missed connections on my craigslist go something like,

"Girl in orange shorts-- you were at krispy creme around 1pm over on glendale. You looked at me, I looked at you. I wish I would have said hello. Hit me back...peace"

lol.

 

[AmberWaves]

lucky, that''s what they sound like in LA, too. Although there are a few "pearls" in there, most of them are, "You- half asian wearing unicorn shirt, me- white guy wearing a hat and cowboy boots. I waved and think you saw me, remember?"

 

[Pandora II]

My dad got a letter from an ex-gf from when he was 26 about 3 years ago (he''s now 67!) wanting to catch up. My mum said, Ah ha, so she''s divorced and hunting for a new man.

My dad, who is a total innocent wrote her a really nice chatty letter back, all about his wonderful wife and 4 kids. He was really surprised she never wrote back!

 

[AmberWaves]

I got a reply, from her BROTHER. Wishing us well, and congrats. I wonder why she never wrote back?