It must have been quite a kiss — enough to spawn a cartoon that tugged at heartstrings and a Craigslist cry for help in the Missed Connections section.
The story goes something like this: Girl meets boy at an East Bay BART station (possibly in Berkeley). Girl and boy play an innocent game of doodling together, which leads to an unforgettable kiss — right before he gets off at MacArthur station in Oakland.
The clincher? The two lovebirds never exchanged names.
The girl’s first attempt to find her Romeo appeared on Craigslist on September 23 in a sweet and sad little note, a missed connection between whizzing trains.
I kissed you at MacArthur — w4m (Berkeley)
I realized after you ran off that I didn’t catch your name. It’s cool if you want to leave it where it was, but if you wanted to keep doodling with me, I thought I’d help you out. If you send me what you studied in college, I’ll know it’s you. I’ve never done something like that before.
In any case, thank you for the kiss.
Then a post on Reddit appeared five days later with the cutest little love comic—a second call into the universe to find her missed connection.
People on Reddit offered her words of encouragement:
“This is the cutest missed connection I’ve ever seen. Seriously hope this works out.”
“Amazingly cute. Please let us know if this works out!”
Others thought they could help:
“I think I know the guy. PM me.”
And yet others suggested she should post on Craigslist, which she said she did, without the intended result:
“I did post there, but I’ve only gotten a bunch of dick pics in response :P”
Mic drop. Vinyl scratch. All hope in humanity, gone. Lost.
Dick pics. Really? So it seems, a plethora of dick pics ruined another good relationship possibility once again. Her missed connection may be a permanent loss now.
We’ll never know who the doodler-in-love at MacArthur BART is, as she deleted her Reddit profile just hours after posting the cartoon, and the email address no longer works.
Either she found the man with whom she shared a few doodles and a kiss, or the two missed the love train forever—thanks to a barrage of unsolicited dick pics.
