Teenage Rebellion and Forbidden Passion When I was a teenager I was a little shit. I’m not proud of it, but it’s the truth. I think it’s because my parents moved me half way across the country half way through my junior year of high school, leaving me with no friends, so I pushed away from them, taking my anger out in the lonely-hearts column on craigslist. My favourite thing I used to do was get some horny dude riled up by describing myself as some ideal girl, getting them to meet me somewhere, and watching them get angry, or look disappointed in a diner or a parking lot. My favorite at the time was a guy who beat up his own steering wheel on Valentines Day. I had a pretty good thing going for a while. Then I turned 17. 17 was a hard year, I guess it was the year I became the horniest, and the loneliest. December when school was out was the hardest time. I didn’t want to talk to my parents because of the move, and I hadn’t been able to make friends yet since everyone had their cliques sorted. So I went to craigslist, found the first ad that didn’t sound creepy and or dangerous. Lonely Business Man Seeks “Friend” I didn’t even read the ad, I just found the email address and sent off “Hi.” The ad was obviously correct because it hadn’t been more than five minutes before I received an email back. I was horrified to find it was sent to my normal email address. I didn’t even use my fake one. Fuck fuck fuck. “Hello, who is this?” “Craigslist.” “Oh, I see, and what did you have in mind? …but everything was about to change
