I like to live life to the fullest but I am not reckless. I value my safety and try not to put myself into dangerous situations but I also don’t want to miss out on the experiences life can provide. I was balancing that thought process when browsing Craigslist personals one night a couple of years ago.
Craigslist has never been the biggest site of its type in the UK. We have Gumtree but that stopped doing personals a few years before Craigslist did so a late-night session of laughing at dreadful ads always sent me in one direction.
I was browsing one night and there was a post near me asking for someone to go for a walk. The poster claimed to be a single man in his early forties who wanted someone to spend an hour or so walking around public, well-lit areas talking, getting to know each other well enough to see if we wanted to spend the rest of the night in private.