He gets cars from dealers, from people who answer his ads & at city auctions.
No one answers his ad for Beloved Times Square Characters.
I thought if my soon-to-be ex-husband could send a picture, and if the women who answered his ad could send pictures, then I could, too.
THREE years ago I discovered my husband was having an affair with a woman who had answered his ad in the "casual encounters" section of Craigslist.
Luckily for Melvin, what he had wandered into was something a bit more poignant: the woman who had answered his ad was obese and didn't want Melvin to see her body.
A young couple answered his ad in The New York Review of Books, and when they got out of their rental car, on the Saturday afternoon before the Fourth of July — him in jeans and black T-shirt, with shaved head; her in yellow sundress, dark bangs, those retro cat's-eye glasses — he thought, You'll do.
In the earlier incidents, Sergeant Imad Ibn-Ziaten was shot in the head by someone who apparently answered his classified ad about selling a motorcycle; he was thirty.
Four women who live within blocks answered his platonic ad, and for a few months, they ran 10- to 12-minute miles.
"We're in desperate need of some therapy here," he roars to Prudence (Katie Finneran), a thirtysomething pulp-magazine editor who has answered his personal ad seeking a woman with whom to have a family.
Michael Dee, 36, an environmental chemist in Seattle, said some of the men who answered his Craigslist ad for a backpacker to accompany him on a two-day trip through Olympic National Park seemed to offer sex.
