Friday remains cat-day.

June 17th, 2005 | by Scott Jennings |

Craigslist is full of weirdos. In case you were wondering.

I posted an ad there about a week ago advertising the availabilty of the room that Austin vacated. Pretty straightforward copy, I feel; I’m looking for a specific type (quiet and cat-abiding), so I’m not going to waste time with the dirty Carrboro types. The Raleigh-area Craigslist doesn’t get a whole hell of a lot of traffic, it seems, so I didn’t set my hopes too high. (But posting don’t cost nothin’, so what the hell.)

My first response came at 1:24am this morning. There were two “things” about the message:

  1. His e-mail handle is “Mr.Snuggles”
  2. He asked for pictures. Of my cats.

Oh, he seemed to be interested in the room as well, but what he wanted to know right away was — what do his kittycats look like? Are his kittycats precious? Might I, uh, snuggle them?

Mr.Snuggles, if you ever Google your ridiculous handle and read my public ridicule, then I want you to know that it’s personal. It’s extremely personal.

Meanwhile, I continue my search. And future roommate: you may love my kittycats, but you may not be odd about it.

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