It is slowly coming to my attention that I need to dedicate further resources to studying the absurd advertisements on Craiglist. As if the “Copy-Writer Position” asking for a grammatically oriented security guard wasn’t absurd enough, I was just alerted to this post:
Looking for Sunday thru Wednesday girlfreind - 24

Hi. I am looking for a single white good looking girl to be my girlfriend from Sunday thru Wednesday, because I come home to an empty house on each of those days. The problem is that both my roommates have serious girlfriends and rarely come home after work; leaving me alone and bored. They either go out to dinner or watch movies at the girls place. I only need a girl for those days because i tend to go out and drink with my freinds thursday thru saturday night. When we are out drinking I like to flirt and pick up other attractive ladies. Hence the reason you can not come out with me, because the floozies at the bar might mistake you for my girlfriend (or weekend girlfriend for that matter). So let me know if you are interested i am very fun in great shape and love to drink. It would really make my work week go by much faster and then i wouldn’t have that constant debate in my head about getting a real girlfriend. Serious replies only.

* it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
While I think the absurdity of this post speaks for itself, I have a few thoughts:

• First, if you are seriously going to try and find a girlfriend on Craigslist, at least spell the word girlfriend correctly. No one wants to date a bad speller.
• Secondly, I don’t care how cool a chick is, when you say that you would prefer to be able “to flirt and pick up other attractive ladies” while you are out then you are already going to fail in the girlfriend department. Try hookers instead.
• Thirdly, I can’t tell if this person is just trying to seek revenge on the roommates for leaving him alone (maybe there is a reason for that buddy) or he genuinely does not realize that anyone who is going to respond to a Craigslist ad on this subject probably isn’t going to help you in your search for societal acceptance.

There is actually a small part of me that thinks a girl wrote this to make fun of her ex-boyfriend. It’s pretty hilarious what you can do if you just know someone’s email account….not that I would know anything about that.