{"id":272264,"date":"2025-06-26T23:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=272264"},"modified":"2025-06-29T01:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T08:32:36","slug":"missed-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=272264","title":{"rendered":"Missed Connection."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L544aI98cX4?si=up6eNXn0xsgwbk-F\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>May this kind of magic find me \u2665\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>I was at my old friend Kelley&#8217;s apartment in the mid-2000s, and we were perusing Craigslist&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.craigslist.org\/search\/mis#search=2~list~0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Missed Connections<\/a> ads LOL and stumbled upon a post that was about her! She would roller skate around her complex with her dog, and someone described a girl who looked like Punky Brewster LOL (she totally had Soleil Moon Frye vibes) rollerskating with a dog around Mission Valley \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n<p>I used to watch her dog when she&#8217;d go out of town, and he was the goodest boi. That had to have been nearly 20 years ago, and my parents still talk about him to this day \ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/qtip-puppy.jpg\" alt=\"puppy\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>I used to have this picure of him printed out on photo paper and pinned up in my office cube like he was my dog \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/qtip-rocky.jpg\" alt=\"puppy\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>I would take Rocky to her apartment for play dates, and I found him in one of Kelley&#8217;s pictures of Q \ud83d\ude2d Q always froze in place whenever you&#8217;d try to put clothes on him \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/rocky-puppy-hat.jpg\" alt=\"rocky puppy hat\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>This hat was Q&#8217;s, but Kelley gave it to Rocky because he didn&#8217;t mind wearing clothes \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/heaven-dog-quote.jpg\" alt=\"heaven dog quote\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>IDK if this is true or if I\u2019m even headed to heaven LOL, but it\u2019s a nice thought. 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