In Aisle 1, you’ll find frozen pizza. In Aisle 7, Gatorade. And if you’re lucky, you’ll find love in Aisle 13.
Next time you consider making a late-night Walmart run in your pajamas, think again, because you could meet your next flame. A study published in Psychology Today showed that the majority of Craigslist missed connections come from America’s favorite superstore.
Missed connections is a section on Craigslist in which people can describe a person they missed out on potentially connecting with. People typically write about their encounters and their surroundings in hopes of meeting the one who got away.
Florida is one of the 15 states that racks up love connections in the classy establishment Walmart. I guess these people have never been on www.peopleofwalmart.com.
Despite topping the chart statewide and nationally, the popular one-stop-shop isn’t the location of many local ads.
At press time, only one Walmart post existed from the last month. (If you are a man with a “model-esque” face and curly, dark brown hair with a perfect high-fade who frequents Wally World, someone is looking for you.)
Sift through the posts on Gainesville’s Craigslist, and you will see that popular bars and restaurants, like the Atlantic and Starbucks, are full of love-struck customers with vivid memories. It almost makes you want to pause and question the situation’s validity.
But then again, there are also some vague, open-ended posts, which leave you wondering if you are, in fact, the missed connection. (Blond guy wearing black shorts at the gym — that narrows it down, right? — your love awaits.)
Is something as simple as posting a stranger’s description online socially acceptable now?
Thanks to our BFF, the Internet, we’re naturally awkward in face-to-face situations like these, which makes approaching an attractive stranger difficult. And when that happens, we turn back to the Internet to Facebook stalk (if we, by chance, got his or her name) or to post a missed connections ad. Ah, the circle of life.
No matter where you find your next mate, this proves one important thing: Love at first sight exists.
Now, go to your local Walmart ,and find your soulmate — we’re looking forward to reading about it on Craigslist.
