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Boy sees girl. Girl gets off train. Boy makes website...
News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:03 AM EST
Article Source: The Ageadvertisement
HIS dilemma was timeless. Only the means of resolving it reflects our times. She took his breath, and his words, away. And by the time he had found them, she was gone.
"The whole ride I was psyching myself up to it. She was writing on this little notepad. Perfect line. I am going to ask her what she was writing about," was how Patrick Moberg related his story of a dreamgirl - a Melbourne girl - who made fleeting eye contact, before walking out of his life.
Actually, she walked out of a subway carriage on the number five line - in that busy time when the crowd surges through the doors like a rip-tide. He, a 21 year-old Brooklyn webpage designer, was wrong-sided.
"We, like, half made eye contact a few times," he said "Right as the train stopped she got up and, like, everyone else rushed in between us. We made eye contact, really solid eye contact . . . and, right when the words were going to leave my mouth, she was off the train."
That is his story as told to a friend and posted on the internet.
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{"commentId":1178034,"authorDomain":"djehuty"}
Further to the story here.
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- 3 votes
#1 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:07 AM EST{"commentId":1178552,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
I wonder how long before the movie comes out ?
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":1178134,"authorDomain":"biggerthebetter"}
Reminds me of that James Blunt song, "You're Beautiful"...
{"commentId":1178134,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"biggerthebetter"}
- 1 vote
#2 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:27 AM EST{"commentId":1178457,"authorDomain":"nickford"}
Hmm, never heard of it...
I wish.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":1178173,"authorDomain":"silkmesh"}
To electronically clinical, the geek should take a holiday, learn to talk to girls and stop living in a dream world. If you like a girl you get in fast to see if she likes you to.
Wed site how un romantic, next time he should follow his dream, then dreams can come true.
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- 3 votes
#3 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:56 AM EST{"commentId":1178262,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}
Well they're meeting for coffee this weekend, the story says, so perhaps "dreams will come true" anyway.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":1180339,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
Hey they left together after the meeting on the same subway......so maybe...
{"commentId":1180339,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1178191,"authorDomain":"redruby"}
Sweet. I think it was a creative approach. I wish him well.
{"commentId":1178191,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"redruby"}
- 3 votes
#4 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:06 AM EST{"commentId":1178367,"authorDomain":"webquack"}
I'll give it a month.
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- 1 vote
#5 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:39 AM EST{"commentId":1178386,"authorDomain":"babin"}
This will turn into a bad Jennifer Love Hewitt movie. Straight to DVD. "Subway Crush"
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- 1 vote
#6 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:48 AM EST{"commentId":1178522,"authorDomain":"freeslovo"}
I like his drawing, ha-ha.
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- 1 vote
#7 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:09 PM EST{"commentId":1178593,"authorDomain":"Plethorarosie"}
I'm wondering how in the world anyone recognized her from the drawing. She has long hair...his drawing of her has short hair, and looks like any brown haired white girl that people see everyday. I'm "shocked and awed." The story is very sweet though, and it's nice that he found her. I'm a romantic at heart, so I wish them well.
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- 3 votes
#8 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:46 PM EST{"commentId":1178615,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
I liked the story also. I agree, the drawing was way off and he is a web designer ?
I am kinda surprised his original web page is still up, you can see much better details on that.
{"commentId":1178615,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1180217,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
http://www.nygirlofmydreams.com/ Is it a website when it's only one page? I do like his drawings and he seems to have a nice sense of humour.
Anyway, the picture on the website describes her hair as "fancy braided hair".
Her friends picked her out because of the rosy cheeks and flower in her hair.
{"commentId":1180217,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1180336,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
Is it a website when it's only one page?
Space is rather limited in NYC Glinda......
That is the shortest website I have ever seen..
{"commentId":1180336,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1179071,"authorDomain":"healinggarden"}
A beautiful story brimming with hope and powered by action. He acted. He didn't just pine away or wonder or hope - he did something. Bravo!
{"commentId":1179071,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"healinggarden"}
- 1 vote
#9 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:48 PM EST{"commentId":1179214,"authorDomain":"phaedrus72"}
Like, this story was, like, so sad!!
In all honesty, I thought it might be a beautiful story, till I got to all the 'likes'.
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- 2 votes
#10 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:25 PM EST{"commentId":1179481,"authorDomain":"vanessa-wilson73"}
*sigh*
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- 4 votes
#11 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:34 PM EST{"commentId":1180394,"authorDomain":"autumnhaiku"}
Reminds me of a story by one of my favourite authors...Haruki Murakami..."The 100% Perfect Girl"...boy sees perfect girl and makes up a story to tell her to convince her of the fact...but of course, she's turned the corner into the crowd before he can reach her...
Lovely, D. Thanks.
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- 5 votes
#12 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:17 PM EST{"commentId":1180401,"authorDomain":"DrKnow"}
Quote Mr. Spock:
"Many times the wanting is far better than the having..."
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- 3 votes
#13 - Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:19 PM EST{"commentId":1180417,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
Mr. Spock:
Star Trek version or Baby Doc Version ?
{"commentId":1180417,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1180449,"authorDomain":"DrKnow"}
From "Amok Time" when Spock had the Pon Farr. His wife chose a champion to fight for her.
The whole quote:
"Many times the wanting is better than the having, it is not logical but it is true."
{"commentId":1180449,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"DrKnow"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1180507,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
OK I remember when Spock battles Kirk to the death ! That was a interesting one.
{"commentId":1180507,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1192390,"authorDomain":"raatkiraani"}
Just 8 million people waiting on the outcome.
and now, thanks to our intrepid columnist from downunder, a few more (million). Look forward to the film.
Reminds me of a section in thelondonpaper called Lovestruck. I often look through it. Perhaps there's a part of me that's hoping I'm being stalked:-) But really, I'm fascinated how strangers word their 'come ons' in such a public way.
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- 2 votes
#14 - Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:33 PM EST{"commentId":1192423,"authorDomain":"djehuty"}
Raat did you ever see the "wanted" ads in the London Review of Books? They've become famous... they're completely wonderful, some of them. Like for example
67-year-old disaffiliated flâneur jacked up on Viagra on the lookout for contortionist who plays the trumpet.
or
A woman in the current issue, for instance, specifies that she is looking for a man "who doesn't name his genitals after German chancellors" (not even, the ad says, "Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst, however admirable the independence he gave to secretaries of state may have been.")
In an e-mail exchange also conducted on condition that her name not be used, the woman, a 38-year-old local government arts official with an interest in Bismarck, said that she been inspired by a disastrous experience with a date who announced over the tiramisu that he called his private parts "Asquith," after the late British prime minister.
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{"commentId":1192439,"authorDomain":"djehuty"}
Then again Raat, I just read this
To the girl in a white dress. I saw your message to "the guy in the pink-striped shirt who got on at St Paul's and off at Oxford Street". I was sure you were talking to me but I get off at Tottenham Court Road. Then I remembered missing my stop, lost in the eyes of a girl, in a white dress. Anon
from the column you mentioned. How cute is that?!!
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{"commentId":1197308,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
Djehuty
I hope you don't mind a shameless plug of my seed from way back in April of an NPR article on 'They Call me Naughty Lola' the compilation of those ads, including these gems:
Bald, fat, short, and ugly male, 53, seeks short-sighted woman with tremendous sexual appetite.
Mature gentleman, 62, aged well, noble grey looks, fit and active, sound mind and unfazed by the fickle demands of modern society … Damn it, I have to pee again.
Unashamed triumphalist male for the past 46 years. Will I bore you? Probably. Do I care? Probably not.
Bastard. Complete and utter. Whatever you do, don't reply -- you'll only regret it.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1197517,"authorDomain":"djehuty"}
Not at all Glinda. I remember that article and those personals were hilarious!
{"commentId":1197517,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"djehuty"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1197536,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
So far appreciated by you and I alone of all Newsvine. :-)
{"commentId":1197536,"threadId":"174828","contentId":"1090921","authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1193301,"authorDomain":"Pasi"}
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