Musical Missed Connections
How I Thought About Becoming the Mother of Awkward Spawn
Missed Connections in Ann Arbor
It happened all so fast. I was schlepping around the downtown area, running errands, missing deadlines, missing productivity, and missing my nonexistent opportunity to create awkward, tall spawn. As I lifted my head, shaking off the weight of my impending doom, I saw you. At first, I noticed your matching sweat suit. Though not shocking in a town occupied by thousands of sports- and beer pong-loving undergraduate males, it was an unusual sight so far away from Scorekeepers on a lazy Thursday evening. My gaze rose, and met a face oddly familiar, and more ancient than the sweats would have led me to guess. Was it the Grecian nose? The dark circles under the eyes? The height? Vaguely unkempt hair? I do not know, but briefly, I thought “It’s Jason Segel, and we could have such awkward, tall children.” Then I brushed the thought aside with the obvious logic: “there is no reason for anyone to come to this town…unless they’re really into pastrami.”
I think we shared a moment.
One Year Ago: Missed Connection Washington DC: You Look Like That Bookish Girl in Scooby Doo
Her Two Cents from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle-Finder:
I like to think that this missed connections message from Ann Arbor could be the intro of the return of “Freaks and Geeks.” It’s decades later, everyone is grown up but still weirdly endearing, and Lindsay has left Chippewa for Ann Arbor. One day, while walking down the street absorbed with self-deprecating thoughts she happens to look up and see… that reality and fiction are closer than we think!
