A Missed Opportunity?
A few days I go I arrived at work to find the following email (I’ve removed the sender’s name….I’m courteous like that):
My name is XXXX – 1 L in section XX (went to Yale for undergrad). I am not sure if we ever met, like at BLSA events or not, but I have a question for you (and feel free to ignore etc if it seems invasive). The thing is, I have a really good friend who met you briefly once a while back and has since then retained an interest in you. He is not a student at HLS but lives Boston/Cambridge area, awesome guy (cute, sweetheart/gentleman kind of guy-no sleeze ball or anything like that). Anyhow, he had asked me if I knew you, when I mentioned I did not, he asked if I would mind contacting you on his behalf.
So, hope you don’t mind that I did. He just wanted to know if you were like taken, seeing someone etc and to hint that he would be really interested in possibly meeting you again or perhaps having a phone conversation etc if you were not taken and were interested in meeting him.
Thanks for your time. I hope this email was not too forward or repulsive ( He is just a great guy – I had to take him up on the request to see if you were seeing someone/not interested etc).
How flattered I was to think that I might have a secret admirer! Alas, it was sent to me in error. There is a female student at Harvard with a VERY similar email address as me and this message was intended for her. The fellow in question, despite being “cute, sweetheart/gentleman”, is apparently straight (of course I replied to the sender to find out – I didn’t want to be rude) and I will never know whether he was the one for me or not.
Oh well. Life goes on.
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Oh well Karl. I started off thinking, “Oh this is cool for Karl……
and end up say, “oh too bad that sucks”.
In reference to your north shore experience…
Yes the straight boys seem to be doing the double earring thing quite frequently now.
At my gym, I see it all time.
Oh, cruel twists of fate!
How is it that someone who went to Yale and now HLS manages to be so damn whiny, wimpy and snotty in the same email? You do realize that in four years that idiot that is, like, umm, like helping a friend from pi phi alpha hook up with like a total hottie he met at the Federalist society mixer is going to be raking in three times what you make?
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Thanks for the laugh. Sucks for you though.
There’s ANOTHER “snarl” at Harvard? What are the odds against that?
I’m sorry, but I chuckled at this note for the simple premise that it reminded me of those notes that fifth graders pass. “Check here if you like me lots, you like me a little, you don’t like me.”
I see someone taking an interest in you, gumdrop. I just hope that this guy is a bit less wussy…
Hi, I’m a principal at a charter school in Boston. I saw you at the Ramrod the other night, and wanted to say hello. You seemed like a smart, sexy guy, and–well, it’s not for me, it’s for my friend. My friend really liked you. My friend is a cute, swwetheart/gentleman kind of no-sleazeball Joyce-loving nerd. I–he rather has been wanting to talk lately and I–he–I–whatever wants to talk. 2-getha, 4-eva, 6-cess.
Hi, I’m a principal at a charter school in Boston. I saw you at the Ramrod the other night, and wanted to say hello. You seemed like a smart, sexy guy, and–well, it’s not for me, it’s for my friend. My friend really liked you. My friend is a cute, swwetheart/gentleman kind of no-sleazeball Joyce-loving nerd. I–he rather has been wanting to talk lately and I–he–I–whatever wants to talk. 2-getha, 4-eva, 6-cess.
WTF? I don’t hear from you in 4 days and then you post to my blog twice? HMMMM
Mark, I think I actually sent Karl that note in fifth grade. I might even still have it. 🙂
Too funny. That guy needs to grow a set. You’re never going to get the girl or guy for that matter by having a friend send an email like that.
Crapola!!! And that person who sent the email is a dumb ass! I’m just being cruel to be kind! Yeah!
Have a great weekend Karl! xoxo