This Love Story Is So...Predictable. Crabby's Challenge: Write A Better Ending
WELCOME TO CRABBYGOLIGHTLY.COM'S FIRST WRITING CONTEST! All you have to do it come up with a better ending to the subterranean love story between Patrick Moberg and the "New York girl of his dreams."
You know the phenomenom called love at first sight? Well, seems Moberg, a 20-something New York web designer, spotted a rare specimen on the No. 5 subway between Brooklyn and Manhattan one day last November and decided she was his ''it girl.''
So he did the obvious thing: He created a webpage, sketched a drawing of the exotic flower he was pursuing, and then sent it into the web's ethers. Lo and behold, within 48 hours he had located the mysterious girl, who turned out to be Australian Camille Hayton, then an intern at BlackBook magazine. (Crabby suspects for free, no doubt?) A friend had spotted Moberg's sketch and recognized his fantasy Fraulein as Camille.
And the rest is...predictable. Hayton, flattered, said, 'why not?' for a little while. But two months later, she opted out of a relationship that we guess was suffocating because of its strict romantic idealism. "We dated for a while but now we're just friends," she told Australia's The Sunday Telegraph. "It's really nice that people embraced the story. It is part of my life now."
No, no, no, no, no! This is not good enough. You do not go on TV, make headlines around the world, then quietly become "friends." It's just not done!
So here's the deal: Crabby wants creative types to come up with a better ending, send it to Crabby Golightly who will publish the best entries. Deadline for entries: August 5th. The best storyline, as deemed by Crabby, will get a $50 Starbucks card, or in the rare event that the winner is from New York a $50 MetroCard.
Posted July 29, 2008
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