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not that i would like

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"You had on blue jeans..."

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I had one once! moment of fame!

― g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"I saw you" aka "I'm that creepy guy from the laundromat who you were desperately trying to ignore"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep reading them, but no one ever sees me. Maybe I need to leave the house more often.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i'll report back as to whether the one i didn't put in bears any fruit.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't I Saw You the only reason people buy The List?

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't buy the list so i've got no idea as to how i'll get my response (the target person is named so i don't expect to hear from more than one person). I'll have such a red face if he does.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

It must be a bit embarrassing if you put in a less specific one and get replies from several people, especially if you're not sure which (if any) are the person you meant.

Even *more* embarrassing, I mean.

I was tempted to put one in myself the other week (aimed at one of the bar staff in a club I went to), but put it off and eventually figured I'd probably left it too late to be worthwhile.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

He knows me, we had a bit of an email flirtation going on but he changed jobs and lost my addy. I just hope he didn't lose it deliberately. I was too much of a wuss to actually go and speak to him at the place where i saw him cos he was with 3 other people.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained i suppose.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I have looked at the 'I saw you' part once. I wonder if anyone has ever seen me.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

A German tourist once left me the equivalent of an I Saw You note, in the stairwell of my building. We wrote letters to each other for a few months.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I should see him again at the Jonathan Richman gig next month, let's hope he doesn't see the list ad before that.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

RJG I've seen you but I didn't feel moved to place an ad in a paper about it. Also we said hello to each other.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder how many I Saw You ads are aimed at people who don't read The List at all, and therefore will never see them anyway.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

He strikes me as the kind of person who would, the last time i bought it was when Radiohead played glasgow green in october 2000.

I've put his first name and surname initial in so i'm hoping it's specific enough for him to notice.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

saw you in a mag
kissing a man

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

You had yellow hair
Did you see me?

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe everyone should say hello to people when they see them!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

assuming they realise, of course. i might have passed leigh in the street many times without realising.

(i think i might have been at a barbecue with alext, about five or six years ago. this is a small city. i didn't say hello to him.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

you've probably met the person who the ad is directed to.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm intrigued now!

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

His first initial is K, he's in his mid 30s and has seen the fall lots of times

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

keith?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Kjohn Kpeel.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

nope

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Krusty the Crusty?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I miss Edinburgh.

― alext (alext), Monday, 17 February 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Knut?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 17 February 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Keith is the only person I know who might fit that description. And I know hundreds and hundreds of people have met him - at The Egg, just about everybody seems to stop to say hello to him.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I was helped by a heart-stopping and extra-friendly cashier yesterday at a mid-day meal in one of the cooler parts of town and felt compelled to post one of these after seeing this thread. Saddo?

― g*bbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

[n.b. I was not thinking of an actual keith, at the time]

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

[I was]

[and I can't think of any other men's named beginning with K]

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Kenny?

Kevin?

― alext (alext), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Kermit?

Of Kelvingrove Pete?

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I have spoken to someone called Keith at the Egg, but this proves very little by science.

― alext (alext), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Kent? Kelvin? Kim? Kris? Kaboom?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I too have seen RJG and told him so.

I did read I Saw You for my first few weeks in Glasgow but then got disheartened. The List's 'I saw you' does at least have the benefit of being quite an institution. It always puzzled me when people placed them in Time Out or wherever, as the chances of the intended reading it seemed pretty slim.

I like the idea of deliberately making up a random one in lieu of a lonely hearts ad (but if it all goes well, at what point do you confess?)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Never confess. Live a lie. Hurrah!

Kris Kristofferson?

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Kris Kross

― alext (alext), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I have spoken to someone called Keith at the Egg, but this proves very little by science.

See, everyone in Edinburgh *has* met everyone else!

alext, did you ever go to any Student (the newspaper) barbecues on North Berwick beach? I have this image in my mind of a person who might be you, and I just wanted to check.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Christ. Erm. Yes. I was very hungover and kept disappearing behind a rock to be sick. So if the person you have an image of is looking quite ill, that may well be me. Although I'm a bit healthier-looking nowadays. What were you doing there? My excuse was the long-running 'will-they-won't-they' relationship with one of the editors, and redesigning the features section. Also avoiding revision for my finals.

― alext (alext), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

And this does totally prove all the theories about getting two people who live in Edinburgh in the same place.

― alext (alext), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I spent a year hanging around 60 Pleasance never managing to think of anything interesting to write. I was only in first year at the time. I don't think I ever *did* write anything, actually. I did stand outside the Main Library trying to sell copies occasionally, though (which shows you how long ago it was - I was there right around the time that they realised we could make more money by giving it away)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Pete on Tottenham Court Road several weeks ago. We had a brief chat but were moving in different directions. Where is this place I should be placing an ad about this, and why?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

It depends if Pete is one of the ILXers you want to pork.

(oink!)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I was working for my parents when I was 17 and went on a run to another office. I was met at the door by an astoundingly attractive blonde girl of about my age - we just stared at each other for a bit then I left, my heart in my mouth.

When I returned to my parent's office, I told the person who'd sent me, and it turned out that this girl was actually staying with her!! I told her how I felt like I'd been hit by the thunderbolt ((C) Mario Puzo).

So imagine my surprise when the girl, whose name was Esme, arrived in our office a while later. We said hello again, looked at each other, then she left. By the time I was sent over to her office again, I suspected something was up. Sure enough, it turned out we had been passing empty envelopes to each other all afternoon.

There isn't a happy ending as such, although we did eventually work up the courage to meet up and have some intimate (emotional rather than sexual) moments before she had to go back to Wales. She was lovely, and I doubt this kind of thing happens more than a few times in a lifetime. Bizarre but great.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 17 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

WIRE REFERENCE = +21389123781278178124

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sure enough, it turned out we had been passing empty envelopes to each other all afternoon.

?? is this a euphemism

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 February 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I did this exactly once. I got on an N train at 8th Street, and a cute boy sat next to me, and started sketching out architectural designs in a notebook. Since I was attending Cooper Union at the time, and fancied myself a bit of an expert, I pointed out some design flaws in his building, and immediately we started chatting about Le Courbousier and dronerock all the way out to Astoria. As he got off (a stop before mine) he handed me a slip of paper with his phone number on it. I went out drinking, and when I woke up, the piece of paper was gone.

I put an ad on the back page of the Village Voice, but he never responded. :-(

― kate, Monday, 17 February 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

It depends if Pete is one of the ILXers you want to pork.

Well of course. Do you think a newspaper advert would help?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I read Craigslist's "Missed Connections" every day. Never been the subject of one, though, and doubt I'd want to be.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't wait to see the ones that pop up post-antiwar rallies:

"YOU: Tall, shaggy blonde, handknit hat, "Stop Mad Cowboy Disease sign. ME: Green jacket, long scarf, started "This is what Democarcy Looks Like!" chant that you joined in. We made beautiful music together - let's start our own revolution. Box 4353."

― maura (maura), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex guessed the name correctly. In spite of having worked at the Egg for a time in the mid 90s i don't recall ever running into a guy named Keith.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, the ad's in the new edition of the list so all i can do is sit and wait.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 27 February 2003 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

ghostworld, yo.

are there specific publications for this?
like, 'Spotted!' magazine? 'Random Stranger Weekly'?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 27 February 2003 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

high entertainment value:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mis/

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Revive! Leigh, did anything happen?

The reason I'm reviving is that, walking to work this morning, I saw someone playing golf, and I'm sure it was an old University friend. Thinking about it, she was even wearing the same hat and jacket that she usually wore when I knew her. It would be nice to get in touch with her again, but she seems to be ungooglable. So, it looks like I Saw You will be my last resort.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Have you tried searching on Friends Reunited? Can you search on that by name, if you don't know their school?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I dunno, but then I'd end up having to pay for their address. They were never really a computer-type person anyway, so I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't on it.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 08:13 (twenty-three years ago)

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