In the US we have this amazing site called http://sfbay.craigslist.org/ which is basically like the classified ads, where people can post things for sale or for rent and they also have a pretty amusing personals section. You can find pretty much anything and everything on craigslist. And I do mean everything!
Today I saw this cute post in the SF missed connections:
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Every girl on a bike riding through the city - m4w - 29
I just want you to know, I notice you. All of you.
I love your short hair, I love your glasses, I love your shitty bike and your eclectic clothing choices.
I want to call out to you. I want to chase after you. I want to dive in front of you and yell “use me as a ramp!”
I know this isn’t appropriate behavior.
So, here’s what I need from you. Someday in the future, stop the bike. Notice the guy who is pretending he wasn’t staring at you five seconds ago? He’s probably listening to headphones and/or holding a coffee. Yeah, he’s the one. Say, “Hey, here’s your chance! Impress me.”
From now until that happens, I will work on figuring out exactly what to say.
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I was going to reply to him with something really cute and witty, but then I realized that this guy must not be talking about me … “shitty bike” … heh, yeah right!
And if he doesn’t have the nerve to strike up a conversation with the girls on the “shitty bikes” then he’ll definitely never be able to talk to meeee! 
(I totally got my frame off craigslist. It had been sitting in some guy’s basement for like 25 years. Score!)
<3!
3 responses so far ↓
1 sandy // Jan 26, 2010 at 6:08 pm
homeboy sounds creepy!
2 Carolyn+Polley // Jan 28, 2010 at 9:36 am
That+is+one+hot+bike+sister….no+shitty+bike+here
3 Dan // Jan 28, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Sandy, you honestly think this guy sounds creepy?
Here is a guy who is celebrating the female on her bicycle and willing to tell you so, and you think he’s creepy.
He’s willing to worship you like a queen on her moving throne in a way which would suggest chivalry is not dead, and all you can say is three negative words to describe his unconventional approach to let you know how he feels.
I would suggest you are more on-guard with the flashy guy at your workplace who has been trying to get you to the pub for the last few years with his tin of date-rape drugs. He may look conventiional and treat you like crap, but peel off the mask of conventionality and you’ll find a creepy individual with only one thing on his mind.
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