Tuesday, December 1, 2009

I'm a Craigslist Elitist

Although I have to find an apartment with fairly specific criteria on a fairly low budget in essentially the next 16 days, I am unable to stop myself from being a Craigslist elitist. Here are some things for which I have mentally rejected CL ads in the last few weeks: (Reasonable) 1. Lack of price in listing (... idiots) 2. Unreasonable utilities costs; wrong timeframe; too much $ for too small of a room 3. Super-stringent rules regarding friends and/or overnight company 4. Smoker, or too much perceived 420 enthusiasm 5. The Dude Who Did Not Own a Microwave or TV and Preferred to Keep It That Way (Possibly Reasonable) 6. Saying weird stuff ("your home is your peaceful white castle of sleep," wtf?) 7. Sounds too-OCD about cleaning duties 8. Sounds too desperately in need of a BFF 9. "Strict shower timing observed" (wtf? x2) 10. AD WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS 11. Too much talk about peace, serenity, zen, harmony, spirituality, etc. (Possibly Unreasonable) 12. More than one use of "lol", or ANY use of "lulz" 13. Any use of "keke" 14. Frequent appearances of multiple continuous exclamation points ("!!!!" and "!!!") 15. Lack of punctuation, or use of comma in place of all other punctuation including ellipses ("close to every thing close to everyone,,,,roomfor rent,,, big!!!" <-- shoot me now) 16. Misspelling more than 10% of words in post. Actually, make that 5%. Actually, I just rejected one for spelling December as "dicimber" and ad as "add" so maybe make that 1%. Basically this is a sample of what I'm seeing: $950 - awesome room w awesome roomates in BEST ASTORIA Reply to: housingxxxxx@craigslist.org room 4 $950,,,,internt/tv/elec not included,,,cozy/HUGE ruom 7x8 in 3 bed aprtment starting dicimber 1. looking 4 nice, friendly girl or guy who only uses shower btwn 4-4:15 am,,,,we have 4 cats who love being 420-friendly with us!!!! u must love them to. harmonious place to live w/vegitarians, no meat here lol but wearingleather is ok lol! close to everyone close to everything! great deal wont last!!! if ur interested in this add and R an interesting person call us at 5555555. peace! I might be homeless come January 1, but DO YOU BLAME ME?

1 comment:

jojo gadget said...

yay you have a home now! :D

hooray