I’m so fucking annoyed right now.
I have two separate Gmail accounts. Actually, three, but one of them’s related to a non-profit thing I do so I don’t really count it. But two personal accounts. One, which has my name attached to it, is for everyday e-mails I send to people I actually know. The other one is the dirty one, which I use for porn mailing lists and escort ads and any other situation where I don’t want people to know my first and last name, when I answer ads about jobs or comment on other people’s blogs, for instance.
But now, in order to post ads in the dirty sections of Providence Craigslist, you need an account. I do some nudey photo stuff occasionally, and generally find that posting in the m4m sections gets more interesting results than in ‘adult gigs;’ because ‘adult gigs’ elicit responses from guys that want you to set up porn shoots for them because they can’t get laid on their own.) Now that I’m unemployed, I figured I might as well do some photo stuff, especially if I’m going to buld the website I’ve been meaning to build myself since like 2004.
So I went to login to my Craigslist account, which I vaguely remembered creating at one point. I put in my e-mail address and the password I usually use, and they didn’t work. None of my passwords worked.
Okay. So I clicked on the ‘forgot password’ link. Then I got an e-mail telling me I didn’t have an account. Okay, maybe I was wrong about already having an account. I went to sign up for one, and was informed that there was already an account with my e-mail address.
So I was all like what the fuck, you know. I tried using my other e-mail address, and the same thing happened. Couldn’t retrieve the password because I didn’t have an account; couldn’t sign up for a new account because I already had one.
I tried again a little while later, thinking it might have just been a temporary glitch. Nope.
So, out of frustration, I created another gmail account, just to see what would happen. I created a Craigslist account with the new e-mail, and everything seemed fine. But then when I tried to post an ad, I got a message telling me that my account needed to be verified by phone. As if Craigslist having my phone number would somehow prevent people from posting illegal ads. Even though I was reluctant to give them my phone number, I did anyway…
Whereupon I got a message telling me that my phone number was already associated with a different account. (Probably, I’m guessing, my dirty one.) So then I typed in my house number and got the exact same message.
Now, even if it made sense for Craigslist to need my phone number in order to post an ad on their personals site, there is no fucking excuse why one account having a phone number should prevent someone else with the same number from having an account. What if I didn’t have my own cell phone? What if I shared my phone with my spouse, or kids, or parents? Or what if I didn’t have a phone at all? It’s possible, but it’s no reason why I shouldn’t be able to put a fucking ad on Craigslist. Jesus.
Anyway, that’s what took up a really stupid part of my morning. Added to the annoying after-effects of a wine dinner last night that was heavy on the wine and very light on the dinner, I’d have to say that today’s kinda sucking.
