Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Craigs List

Recently, my roommates and I needed to find a new roommate to take the place of Carebear who was moving in with his girlfriend. Naturally, we placed a posting on Craig's List. We live in a good sized three bedroom apartment in one of the most beautiful and lively areas of the city so we knew that it wouldn't be hard to find someone. And it wasn't...

We immediately had 23 responses within two hours of the posting being up. A few sounded crazy, a few sounded ok, but immature, and there were about 8 that sounded great. We contacted them, let them know that we would have an open house and set up appointments for them to view the apartment.

We never specified if we preferred a male or female roommate so we had about equal candidates coming to view our home. Every single person that came to the apartment was great!! SL and I could see ourselves living with any one of them. However, we decided that we didn't want to live with another boy. Carebear was a very effeminate guy so he could deal with us. But, SL and I are pretty girly girls and we determined that these guys would eventually hate us and our female ways.

We finally chose a roommate and let all of the, for lack of a better word, losers know that we thought they were great, it's not going to work out, but if you're ever up for it we would love to hang out (there really were all great people who seemed like a lot of fun!).

I had known immediately when I met one of the candidates, Chicago, that I couldn't live with him--I was attracted to him...then he turned out to be freaking hilarious too!! So when I wrote that fateful email telling him he would not in fact be our roommate, I really meant it when I said "but we should hang out sometime!" Needless to say, he felt the same way and said we should hang out sooner rather than later.

About a week later he started emailing me. Long story short (I know, too late), we ended up hanging out...you can use your imagination from here--just know I'm not 'that kind of girl'. Ok, sometimes I am, but that's not the point.

The point of all of this is.....if you are ever in need of a date, post a listing in craigs list looking for a roommate. You'll get a large pool of people to pick from. Even if you aren't really looking for a roommate they don't know that. So when you let them down gently, suggest that you should hang out sometime. You never know what it can lead to!!

posted by Mandy @ 11:15 AM