On Saturday I posted an ad in search of a new roommate. I specifically said that I wanted a female roommate in her late twenties to early thirties. I got an email from someone named Bruce with the subject line "Let's start a dialogue". His email said he was in his forties, likes Szechuan cooking, swimming and biking and that he has a good deal of furniture as well as a "high end entertainment center" he's willing to share.

I wrote back to good old Bruce thanking him for his interest but as I said in my posting, I'm looking for a female roommate in her late twenties or early thirties but best of luck finding something. Over the past two days I have gotten the same email from Bruce two more times. I mean the exact same email as if he's just sending it out to everyone without regard for circumstance or repetition. I'm afraid this is just plain bad roommate hunting etiquitte. I keep deleting Bruce's email but I'm sure I'll be hearing from him again.

I'm beginning to wonder if there's a special type of spam sent to people who post apartment ads because I have to say, Bruce is driving me crazy with his same old email with the corny subject line and his eating and activity preferences. Are you a real person Bruce? No one could possibly like Szechuan, swimming, biking, AND high end entertainment. After your 27th email maybe I'll decide you are the right roommate for me after all.  ¶ 4:34 PM