Dear Craig's List
Dear Ad Respondent,
While it wasn't something I had interest in, I could understand you asking if we might be willing to trade the Eclipse for your sport bike. It's a lovely bike and probably would be a pretty equitable trade. If I was looking for a motorcycle, I'd even consider taking you up on it. Offering a trade didn't immediately peg you in my mind as a gambler.
But replying to my polite "lovely bike but no thanks" with "are you single?" tells me that either you're pretty seriously hard up for a date or you're one hell of a gambler/risk taker. After all, you're taking a chance on a number of things beyond my relationship status: 1) I'm actually female and not either a guy with a weird sense of humor or an unexpected name, 2) I'm not so easily offended that I would report you to CL for some form of abuse of the system and 3) that even if I was single and willing to go out with you, I'm not going to be crazy or otherwise just not your type.
I do appreciate the "oops...sorry" reply to my "happily married" though. If you're going to be a slightly creepy guy on CL, at least you're managing polite and straying into only _slightly_ creepy.
- Kai
While it wasn't something I had interest in, I could understand you asking if we might be willing to trade the Eclipse for your sport bike. It's a lovely bike and probably would be a pretty equitable trade. If I was looking for a motorcycle, I'd even consider taking you up on it. Offering a trade didn't immediately peg you in my mind as a gambler.
But replying to my polite "lovely bike but no thanks" with "are you single?" tells me that either you're pretty seriously hard up for a date or you're one hell of a gambler/risk taker. After all, you're taking a chance on a number of things beyond my relationship status: 1) I'm actually female and not either a guy with a weird sense of humor or an unexpected name, 2) I'm not so easily offended that I would report you to CL for some form of abuse of the system and 3) that even if I was single and willing to go out with you, I'm not going to be crazy or otherwise just not your type.
I do appreciate the "oops...sorry" reply to my "happily married" though. If you're going to be a slightly creepy guy on CL, at least you're managing polite and straying into only _slightly_ creepy.
- Kai