There is a bitter satisfaction in seeing the world live down to your expectations.

[mmmrorschach]

Whenever I read a Missed Connection, I imagine the two people's guardian angels pulling strings and trying to arrange a coincident moment to bring the perfectly matched couple together. Then the whole time the two people are making fluttering eye contact or trying to build up the courage to say something to each other, the two angels are nervously

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[tastyradish]

Happy Birthday! This should be your "champagne" birthday I believe! (Since you're turning 26 on the 26th.)

My friend met a guy on the Missed Connections sections of my school's student run social networking site (http://www.mc.omguw.com/). He lent her his pencil in an exam and she thought he was cute and wrote an MC about him kind of as a joke not expecting it to lead to anything. But because of that they ended up meeting again and spending most of the summer school term together and now he's in a different province for co-op but said when he gets back he wants to officially start dating her. So that's completely irrelevant to anything but thought I'd share anyway.

[mmmrorschach]

I noticed that too, but I didn't know there was a specific name for it! That's neat. I always look forward to prime numbered birthdays because they get rarer as you get older. I'm also looking forward to 28 because it's a "perfect number" (it's equal to the sum of its positive divisors), so hopefully that means 28 will go perfectly for me...? No, probably not, but it's my last chance because I already passed 6 and I don't think I'll make it to 496.

See, we only a need a few of these success stories floating around to keep everyone else's hopes up, sort of like the lottery. The fact that it was your school's social networking site definitely helped the odds, though. But for people posting on major metropolitan area's craigslist, they need to put their Han Solo game face on and say, "Never tell me the odds."

[jejuneraccoon]

I'd be pissed off if someone expected me to carry around a damn stone. One stone today, another on an anniversary. Next thing I know my pockets are full they're pushing me into a deep body of water.

I want "Pepperoni and cheese" to be engraved on my tombstone.

Happy birthday! Go have an adventure.

[mmmrorschach]

Haha, if someone bought you an "Always" stone and expected you to carry it around, you could be like, "Who do I look like, Virginia Woolf?" For the more doubtful, they should sell a line of "Sometimes" stones, and then all the way down to a brick with the word "Never" on it that you can throw through their window.

Oh no! I just made that joke a few comments up. Now I look like a fool. Well, we think alike!

And thanks!