My Creepy Craigslist Encounter - Papa's Basement 458

I would so rather have been greeted by Philip Markoff, aka the Craigslist Killer, than the guy I ultimately met this week.

I love Craigslist. Not for casual sexual encounters, mind you (during my single days, I seem to remember anyone giving it away on CL looks like a Towering Inferno-sized dumpster fire), but for buying and re-selling used video games. Yes, the shelves of my abode give those of GameStop a run for their money, and it’s all thanks to meeting strangers via an anonymous website and buying their electronics collections on the cheap.

Despite my overprotective Mediterranean mother’s steadfast belief that, every time I met a stranger to purchase a Zelda game off of them I was taking my life in my hands, until last week, nothing bad had come of this behavior. In fact, it had instilled in me a small faith in humanity: Out of the hundreds of times I had met people to buy their goods or sell my own, only once had anything even close to a rip off occurred. (Nor had I ever been raped, despite how much my revealing attire might have begged it.) Those are really good odds when you crunch the numbers, and they in part let me nurse a belief that, deep down, maybe none of us are all that different after all.

All of that came crashing down on me last week when, during what should have been a routine sale of Mario Kart 7 for the Nintendo 3DS, things took a very fast, very grim detour. What happened? WHY THE HELL WOULD I TYPE OUT THAT PART?! I spent the better part of 200 words convincing you to give my show a listen, and I’m just going to give you the good stuff here? The hell with that! You can click the link below and you can find out what happened on your own, dammit! It’s worth it, I promise.

In addition to my unfortunate Craigslist experience, co-hostess Eva and I also cover the frenzy surrounding Taylor Swift’s visit to DC (and debate the last time a musical act was this huge) and dissect the backlash to Caitlyn Jenner winning an Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs. It’s a good episode. Treat yo self and listen.

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