I learned pretty quickly that it wasn't the best, but it wasn't awful either. 7 out of 10 women who put up ads are prostitutes, and perhaps half the men are looking for prostitutes, but once that's weeded out, Craigslist is no worse than any other site.
@Jay oh yeah, I was actually making a small joke. Scrabble was actually a pretty good way to weed out the idiots and the ones so insecure that they can't stand to lose.
I didn't think of it as selling myself, more like putting out feelers.
My grandmother gave me a few lessons and she seemed to think that I was a quick learner, but I don't know enough to just sit down and be competitive. So playing online would be really fun!
@Jay I'm glad you mentioned it though, I forgot that I need to email him. he offered to round up a couple of his friends to move my stuff out of storage. This is the same guy who spent all afternoon getting my car running two days after I bought it.
@Jay I spent most of my time in the US in NC's Triangle. I don't know if you are familiar with that. Also 2 years in Chicago. Now, that's a really unfriendly place.
I once corresponded with a guy called Randy. I just assumed he was a woman, based on his name. It turned out eventually he'd done the same with me. So, as he remarked to me later, it was two men corresponding each thinking the other was a woman.
I've been surprised a few times at work at colleagues mis-guessing or not knowing gendered (largely but not exclusively Anglo-Saxon) forenames. I shouldn't be, it's obvious when you think about it
That was many years ago. And I think it was maybe a week before we figured it out. I think I was misread because I'd come across American Randys in fiction who were female.
@FaheemMitha my former employer had a correspondence list on a certain specialist topic, on which was a fairly senior U.S. politician named Randy Baumgartner. Which of course, my joker of a colleague pronounced 'bum-gardener'
@Jay No, I think it was a depression mailing list. My mother was suffering from depression, and I was trying to get information. I think Randy was also afflicted. He was really nice and helpful, in spite of that.
I've now forgotten what the name of that mailing list was. But I do remember he was American. He also remarked to me that in the UK, Randy meant, as you probably know, sexually aroused.
So, he remarked with amusement that when he had visited the UK, he had gone around telling people, hi, I'm Randy, which left some room for misunderstanding.
In all my time in the US, I don't think I met a single person who told me he/she was gay. Which is kind of depressing. I must not come across as a very open person...
@FaheemMitha Americans are weird like that. I don't think I'm aware of any other stereotype that busts a nut about anything out of the ordinary like they do
And makes me feel so irresponsible. Idk just really upset with myself
No other car. Me and a piece of metal jutting out from a dumpster
I was parallel parking and the front of my car was caught in the metal. Pretty much ripped off most of the front of the car. The bumper is hanging loosely offor the front of my car
Yea the last month was a light in a long tunnel full of unemployment, family with cancer and shifty feels. I was finally in a good spot and this happened. But hopefully there is nothing but good things for us in the next few months
