Boy I'm getting amazingly different feedback on this... Bob W came closest
to understainding why I pointed it out... in addition to Rob calling her
a princess.
Did you look at what she wants to eat??? No fruits or vegetables, but she
_needs_ diet Pepsi.
I'm guessing Mom and Dad plaid for her graduate school OR she has a student
loan , is living in a dorm and doesn't get her next loan check until
April 1st.
She has a computer, too. It isn't that she is asking for a meal, or
offering barter
of say books or wardrobe in exchange for groceries. And doesn't she
have any friends??
She wants specific stuff from Trader Joes -- where, in fact, she can get
her moning coffee free
and a small "sample" for breakfast. She can get crackers and jam at the
farmers market for free.
she could offer to do some chores for someone in exchange for a meal --
I actually saw the public reply to her before I read her post... it made
me curious.
the WANTED section of craigs list is not _social_ networking. Used
mostly for people who
want to know where to find/buy something, want to purchase specific
items, and lately too much
either phony needy people / orgs or salvage companies.
But I've responded to people who have asked for specific things for
"free or cheap" including
school teachers needing books for their kids, etc... but I've seen a
lot of ads from kids who have
come to NY, gotten themselves a $1500 a month apartment and then are
asking for people to
give them stuff to fill it up - on line_ when one simply has to walk
around the city to find discarded
items of all sorts , or stuff put out for recylcing...
I also saw the offspring of friends living on student loans but still
"needing" a $100 Gucci bag
and/or going out to bars almost every night with friends where even a
beer costs $3 or $4...
And this chick is in graduate school??? she isnt really "poor" -- she
just doesn't want to
fess up to parents and/or friends that she spent too much money in
March, I'm guessing.
I didn't see her offering in anyway to work for food. Rob's not
wishing her ill, John...
just sort of tsktsking at the folly of youth... at least, so it seems to
me.
If she had posted without the elaborate list of specific items , gosh,
I might have said
come over for dinner and I'll feed you in exchange for you doing the
dishes.
End of mini rant
ann
John Sessoms wrote:
From: Rob Studdert
On 22/03/2010, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wan/1653563837.html
>
> just had to share...
I think poor little princess needs to starve a little!
Young people are using the internet for social networking in ways I'd
never have imagined. This doesn't strike me as so strange when you
consider how things like bridal registry have morphed.
Used to be when you got engaged the bride dragged the prospective
groom off to whatever high falutin' department store to "register"
china patterns. Now they go to Target & run amok with a bar-code scanner.
It's funny in a goofy sort of way how oblivious some young people can
be to the wider world, especially Manhattans, but not I think, reason
to wish her ill.
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