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December 16, 2005
Desert island ads
Every so often, people ask me what interesting ads have been posted on the site. I suppose I should tell them to take a look for themselves (after all, who knows what gem they may come across?) but that does feel just a little mean. So (as Rob Fleming in High Fidelity might say) my desert island, up-to-this-time, top-three Adzooks adverts are as follows:
In ‘classes/skills and language swap’ a there was a gap year survival course advertised quite some time ago. I wish I had gone on something like this before I spent one summer on a disastrous project to bring drum and bass to the people of Eastern Russia.
In ‘lost & found’ someone posted an ad asking for the return of a red diary. I really felt for this person, as I can remember the time I left my diary on a bus. I still don’t understand how it happened, I’m not usually so scatter-brained. I didn't even realise it was gone till the next day, and by then I thought it was gone for good. At least, I thought, whoever found it wouldn’t know who had written it. I would remain blissfully anonymous. Weeks later I got a phone call from a strange number – a man saying he had found a book of mine and would I like it back. While I had left my own details out of the book, I'd left in the details of someone else I’d rather forget. The finder of my diary had not only read it all, but decided in order to get it back to me to ring this other person up and get my details, no doubt having to explain how he had this person’s number. When I met up with the finder to get my diary it was an awkward few minutes. I’ve never left anything behind me since, though.
In ‘personal accessories’ there have been various ads for jewellery for sale. There has been quite a variety, but my favourite was for a pink diamond ring. I haven't got a diamond ring and well, if there is any kindly Adzook user who wants to buy it for me, I wouldn't say no....
There are quite a variety of ads going up across the Adzooks regions, and the site itself is pretty versatile and allows for lots of different things to be advertised.
Posted by Selina at December 16, 2005 4:09 PM
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