Hmmm ...

Just read this Craig's List ad:

hello Ladies
I am a white male, 6'4", 170, brown/brown, Sagittarius
Looking for a woman that is strong, intelligent, loyal, kinda bossy/spunky type gal.

By trade I am a fiction writer, cabinet-maker of fine furniture and other odd jobs:)
Moving from Charlottesville, Virginia to Tucson, AZ sometime late summer. have lived in Tucson previously many times before.

Enjoy the outdoors, anything adventurous, heavy metal/classic rock, military history, great fiction.

I am anti-drama personally, laid-back, totally free of anxiety, humorous, non-clingy, romantic, cavalier.
Waiting to hear from you! 

for this guy:

So, let's see:
Uses the word "Ladies" check
6'4"  check
brown eyes check
fiction writer  check
cabinet maker check
going to be living in Tucson check
like classic rock  check
likes fiction check
general overtone of niceness check
Wants a woman who is:
strong check
intelligent check
loyal check
kinda bossy check

So, yes, I wrote to him. I wrote this to him, in fact:

Hello. Uhm .. not sure how to say this.  I’m not actively looking for anything romantic or sexual or anything like that, because, quite frankly, my life is a royal mess. But, I read your ad and it intrigued me, all the same. I, too, am rather laid back and a fiction writer.  So, if you don’t have anything against fat chicks, with messy kitchens, who believe in God, perhaps you’d like to get to know each other via email and maybe hang out or something. Or, you know, you could just submit to me now, marry me up and become my love slave. lol   I attach a startlingly bad photo. Or, perhaps it is a startlingly good photo and I’m just kidding myself xx

Arletta

I am now waiting to be soundly ignored and/or insulted in some manner, as that is what usually happens, when sexual innuendos are not flying about like rabid bats, instead; but, one never knows, if one does not try.

Also, as those of you who are related to me (should anyone ever read this blog) should be quick to note, he looks an awful lot like Eric. Not exactly, but, within the same basic genetic makeup, to be sure.