Every year, adventurers travel to Black Rock City, Nevada for the annual Burning Man festival. At the end of their 9-day experience, festivalgoers are left with dusty belongings, and many times, missed love connections.
In an attempt to reconnect with playa romances in the real world, people post their stories to the legendary ‘Missed Connections‘ page on Craigslist. However, due to the setting of these chance encounters, each missed connections is more fanciful and extraordinary than the last.
For those unfamiliar to the ‘Missed Connections’ page, users typically include tags like ‘m4w’ to signify a ‘man looking for woman’.
Take a look at this year’s Burning Man missed connections:
5. Burning Man: Zeitgeist looking for Guess from the Ashram Galactica – m4w (Black Rock City)
I should say that I was hardly sober (very much to my determinant in this situation), but I understood your playa name to be Guess. A confusing, but beautiful name if that was correct…I gave you one of my LED hair lights and you gave me a ring light… I was on my way to meet you and your friends at a party at 4:30 and Esplanade, when I got a bit over whelmed by the beauty and chaos of the area, so I walked away to seek some calm off a side street when I got hit hard by my first severe white-out for 30-45 minutes…The romantic in me hopes that with any luck this message will reach you, otherwise I suppose like everything else out there, it will blow away like dust in the wind.
4. Crying under a crocodile at burning man. Mark, aka Fruit Salad – w4m (oakland downtown)
You were crying under a crocodile. I was with a couple friends who noticed. You had a purple (was it blue?) faux-hawk. We descended upon you and embraced and comforted you. We ended up back at your camp in a delirious state of sleep deprivation and substance come-down. You made us bacon and eggs and we lay down for a nap that became a bit of a sticky triangle…Are you out there? I remember you saying you lived in Oakland. I remember your playa name being fruit salad. I remember your hands, and all your bracelets, I remember your brown eyes, with their tears and their intensity. These are the only details I can recall to help me find you.
3. Twelve from Burning Man – w4m
I know this is a total longshot but we hung out Friday night after meeting at a camp “bar” A huge group of guys followed me around the playa calling me Queen until it was late and just the three of us. I named you Twelve. I guess I passed out and woke up confused then ran away. I wish I had stayed and spent the rest of the burn with you. I wish I could remember where you were from. Hopefully that wasn’t the last time I will see you. Also if you are Twelve give me some background details so I know it’s really you.
2. Looking for Ox from Burning Man – w4m
I feel a little silly posting this, but I really thought we would meet again. We met over by the big light up orb. You gave me some of your hair :). You had to leave to volunteer at Center Camp and came to say goodbye. Your energy was infectious and I’d like the chance to get to know you past the few sentences exchanged.
1. Burning Man Irish Bar mishap – w4m
Met at home brew joint in Center Camp at Burning Man on Burn Night–You were a Geologist from Orange County, me, a tax lawyer in Houston, Texas;. . ..had a date to meet at the Twisted Swan Irish Bar at 4:49 & F per iburn ap at 8:00PM, by the time I figured out it was a misprint and at 4:30&C, it was too late! I’m soooo bummed. You were a doll.
Can you believe some of these missed connections from Burning Man? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
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