Eighteen

Craigslist.org has gotten a lot negative press over the past several years.  There was the "Craigs List Killer" which certainly brightened the spotlight on Craig's dark side.  There are scams galore, mostly in the for sale section, not too unlike the penniless stranded emigrants who email you asking for bank account numbers.  So, in efforts to vet the thousands of postings that come through the Craigs platform on a daily basis, they've upped the anty on some of the requirements to do so.  For example, if you wish to post to the employment section, you may be charged a small fee.  Or, if you are seeking a roommate, your pre-version of the posting may have to jump through a text or phone call hoop before it's official.  You'll also have to agree to a nondiscrimination clause before proceeding with any posting.

Craig is based out of San Francisco which is neither here nor there (actually, it is there if you really want to split toothpicks), but it adds the right rainbow glow to the whole clause thing.  Immediately following the nondiscrimination clause, which holds the same standard equal rights details as any of its ilk, is the box where the user selects to be notified via phone call or text message of the approval code they will have to enter [on the final level of Angry Birds (talk about hoops)] in order to fulfill their posting. 

So below the nondiscrimination clause are two boxes.  You can check either for telephone call or text message--O.K.; beside this are two more options.  You can check to receive the communication form that you just selected in either English or French.  English stands to immediate reason.  The other begs the obvious question: Are there that many berets using Craigs?  And speaking of nondiscrimination, that seems like a bit of a catch, a catch-18, if you will (or as Heller settled on, catch-22).  Flabbergasting, the whole of it, the parts of it, and the sum of it.  How do you say arbitrary in French?



Life sometimes can be eighteen.

Eighteen: --noun

  the number immediately following seventeen and immediately preceding nineteen; otherwise meaningless