Hey Ben! Courtney, A Completely Sane Chick From Old Town Wants to Meet Up!

Fox DC - It is a story that sounds like it is a made-for-TV movie. But it is a real life, online love mystery that is blooming by the day. In a bright pink running top and her dark brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, Courtney is getting ready for the New Year’s Day “5K Resolution Run.” On the top of her list for 2014? Find Ben. “He is probably early to mid-30s, white male with brown hair, beard, brown eyes, average build, slightly athletic,” she recalls. They met December 23rd at The Light Horse restaurant in Old Town Alexandria. Courtney says they chatted for hours. “Religion, faith, morality, culture, and how do you define culture in society, definitely not the things you just randomly talk to someone about in bar,” she says. “It was an extensive conversation in the middle of a DJ playing, a hundred people dancing all around us.” But she left with her friends — without exchanging numbers. So in this day of online dating and digital networking, Courtney resorted to the oldest tool of romance: the pen and paper. She posted 60 signs up and down Old Town’s main drag: King Street. They have tugged at the heartstrings of passersby. Jessica Meisinger snapped a photo of it. “I think it’s romantic. It’s like an old-fashioned ‘missed connections’ on Craigslist,” she says. “You don’t usually see that kind of thing anymore.”

Courtney a guy talked to you for hours and you didn’t go home with him. He put in so much work and you decided to leave with your fat friends. You know what I’m hoping happens to your desperate ass self? That he meets up with you, goes Cleveland Steamer all over you, and never talks to you again. That’s the best case scenario here, ya looney tune.

But say Ben isn’t any crazy chicks, I have a guy who is perfect for you. His name is Reese and is your match made in stalker heaven. Perfect for each other in every way. Besides the second someone gets jealous of the other person and skins the other one alive, I can’t see anything going wrong.

PS: the craziest person in this story is the chick Jessica who recalls the good ol’ days of missed connections on Craigslist. Woah girl, pump the breaks. “You don’t usually see that kind of thing anymore.” What in the world? Was that ever even a thing? She’s making it out like Craigslist is the fairytale romance she never had. Nuts.