<story><title>The Saddest Map In America</title><url>http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/02/21/the-saddest-map-in-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zalzane</author><text>I never understood the concept of missed connections on craigslist. Honestly, what&apos;s the chance of two people meeting each other, forgetting to swap numbers, and then both going onto craigslist to search/post in the missed connections category?&lt;p&gt;It just seems like such an overwhelming statistical improbability that such a missed connection would ever be fulfilled through craigslist, I don&apos;t see why anyone would even bother posting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barkingcat</author><text>I posted a missed connection once, and about 2 hours later got a reply from a person who was in the exact same circumstances (ie same time, same place, same details about furtive glances) - but she was looking at some other dude who was there and thought I was him. At the same time, I actually wasn&apos;t looking at her, but at another girl who was at the same event.&lt;p&gt;So it fizzled cause we weren&apos;t looking for, but looking &quot;past&quot; each other.&lt;p&gt;Moments of extreme awkwardness after flirting madly mutually verifying locational/timing/happenstance details followed by absolutely wrong physical descriptions of each other. Yah that conversation dried up fast.&lt;p&gt;I suppose it could have been a romantic start to some kinda relationship, but that ship sunk before it even had a chance.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Saddest Map In America</title><url>http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/02/21/the-saddest-map-in-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zalzane</author><text>I never understood the concept of missed connections on craigslist. Honestly, what&apos;s the chance of two people meeting each other, forgetting to swap numbers, and then both going onto craigslist to search/post in the missed connections category?&lt;p&gt;It just seems like such an overwhelming statistical improbability that such a missed connection would ever be fulfilled through craigslist, I don&apos;t see why anyone would even bother posting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ellyagg</author><text>One time my sister-in-law met a guy at a bar and it was one of those movie conversations where they liked the same obscure writers and comedy and whatever. They parted coolly and casually, but the next day they reconnected through Craigslist. So it&apos;s happened at least once.</text></comment>