Have you ever had a misconnection? I
actually have. Not to brag. Welcome back
to What's Trending, I'm Candice
Carrizales. Subscribe for more social
media news every day. So, yes. I did have a
miss connection. It was a few years ago
in LA. I was on the Metro making eyes
with this guy, and he was making eyes
back. I was sitting next to my friend she
was like, "That's your boyfriend, that's
your boyfriend," and then he got off the
train with his mom.
That sounds creepier than I intended. I
was 17 at the time and he was probably
like 18 or 19 or 16 or something like
that. We're just kids getting off the
train with our moms. I wasn't with my mom,
but I was with my friend who was kind of
like a mom. So me and my friend go home
we're checking Twitter we're just like
typing in the search bar "I saw a girl on
a train" in hopes that we would like find
something about me. Didn't happen.
Unfortunately, I never found him and now
he's just a fading memory. I really do
not remember what he looks like at all.
Anyway,
a similar story happened to a woman
named Devin Custalow in Brooklyn, New
York. You ever been? She's a 25 year
old Brooklyn resident who was riding the
train with her roommate when she saw a
cutie on the platform wearing yellow
shoes. They got on the train and
according to Devin: "We kept looking at
each other and making eye contact. We
were kind of giggling about it." And
Devon's roommate agreed saying: "They kind
of were flirting with their eyes for a
while. The chemistry was unreal. Honestly.
It was really funny just seeing them
interact." They also kept getting closer
and closer on the train, which is kind of
like just talk to each other at this
point. You're getting closer, but
you're still like, and then you just like
closer. What are you doing? So instead of
talking to each other,
it was Devin's stop. Is she gonna get off
the train? Is she gonna stay on the train?
She stays on. And guess what? Nothing
happened.
It appears none of them had the guts to
talk to each other.
I feel like Devon was a little bit
blaming the guy, but at this point it's
2018. We both got to make an effort, okay?
Like one time I gave my number to a guy
at Starbucks. Did he turn out being crap?
Yeah, but I took the action.
I made action. Women power. Everyone can
give numbers and talk. So basically she
got off the train with her friend, and
the mystery of the yellow shoed man
continued. Devon could not get this guy
out of her head so she posted a missed
connection to Craigslist. Devon said: "I
had no other idea how to try to rekindle
or reconnect with him. I also thought I
had nothing to lose. The great thing
about New York is if you don't want to
see someone again, you never will.
That's also the bad thing." I get where
she's coming from, like what else can you
do? But also something about Craigslist
screams "eww!" Craigslist missed
connections I feel like probably 99% of
them are creeps. I only go on Craigslist
for the free sh*t. So, somehow, some way... a
hotel in Las Vegas found her missed
connection post and was like we're gonna
help her make this a really big deal so
she can find this guy, to which I'm like
what hotel employee in Las Vegas was
searching the missed connection boards for
New York and found her post?
Honestly, super sketchy. So the hotel
decided to post a 20 foot mural in
Williamsburg, New York. It read: "I was the
brunette in the green pants. You were in
yellow shoes, glancing at me, and
pretended not to listen to me and my
roommate discuss how I wanted to talk to
you. I even missed my stop in hopes that
you would say something, but you never
did.
I know you probably won't see this but
if you do, say hi this time." I know. I
think she... the thing about this billboard
thing is she's like kind of blaming him
for not talking to her? Girl! What if you
just thought you had a connection with
this guy and he had something in his eye?
Also she was the one
that had a friend with her, so her friend,
the perfect wing woman, she had a wing
woman! The friend could have been like:
"Hey. I'm blah blah. This is my friend blah
blah blah." The billboard also
reads: "If you're out there, meet here on
Valentine's Day 2/14 ( in case you didn't
know the date of Valentine's Day) at 1:00
p.m.
Spoiler alert. He doesn't show up. All
that effort, all that money, all no guy.
But then it begs the question: was there
ever guy in yellow shoes? Was this just a
ploy to get on Good Morning America?
Let's put it out there. We have nothing
to lose if we never see him again.
Okay, but imagine if we do and now we're
here, so I'm so thankful that it all
worked out and this way at least. I'm sorry. Did she just say she's happy
it worked out in this way at least?
Implying that she's happy that at least
she got on TV for it? She also says this.
People who... clearly did not fit the description
were like I can buy some yellow shoes for you, so it's
been great, it's been so cool. Guys who very
clearly did not fit the description. What
description? All the description said
was this guy in yellow shoes. She's
playing us. Get your story straight. She's
just trying to get free dates
and free men. Imagine if we all just got
our missed connections on TV. There would
be 24/7 miss connections, or better yet
just a missed connection TV channel. It's
just constant missed connections. You can
watch it and be like is this about me? Is
that about him? Is this about us? Honestly,
not a bad idea. Million
dollar idea, baby. Send me money for it.
Devon had one last message for her
missed connection.
She said: "Hey, this is not meant to come
across creepy. This is just following up
on a really cool and impactful
interaction. This is still lingering with
me." That sounds super Craigslist creepy,
girl. So the day of the meet up (February
14), an ABC 7 News correspondent was also
there on the scene with Devon probably
hoping to get the love story of the year,
and then she tweeted this. "Yellow hat and
yellow shoes but is this him?
Devon Custalow was looking for that guy
who she locked eyes with on the G train.
She even got a mural done hoping he
would be here today at 1:00. Well he was
a no-show." He was probably a no-show
because he was busy. He can't just be
walking around New York all day trying
to find miss connections. Also let's talk
about how hot those guys are in that
tweet from ABC 7 News correspondent. Both
of those guys are really hot. I
particularly like the guy on the left
with the beard and the yellow hat. I
think he's like real smokin' hot and I just
can't imagine the guy on the train being
as hot as that guy. And what I'm trying
to say is I am having a missed
connection with this guy in the yellow hat. He has
never seen me, but I saw him on Twitter
and I'd love to know his name, get his
number, and maybe get some lunch at 1:00
p.m. on Valentine's Day 2019. So what do
you guys think? Do you think she made up
this story? Do you think that the guy on
the train was busy? Do you think the guy
in that tweet was hot? Let us know in the
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