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Send your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful info. SFist reader The Default Attorney sent us this item, which s/he found taped to an N-Judah stop at Arguello and Irving at the end of June. The note sounds like your typical missed connection, but it was taken a step...

So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the entire maze and a blogger reports that BART was a lot more crowded than it was yesterday.

Listen, we are here for you. It is important that you ask Questions that you desire us to Answer. So, hey; what would you have us answer? We are your tea-sipping Bay Area oracle of the internets, y'all. As all-encompassing as fuzzy blanket... As omni-present as that one tie of Gavin's... As multi-functional as your winter sweatpants... Whatever you've got, we can answer. So let fly! Do you have some answer that has eluded you...

This would be your weekly reminder for you to ask us Questions that you desire us to Answer. 'Cause that's what we do, here at SFist Answers. So, hey; what would you have us answer? We are your purely awesome Bay Area oracle of the internets, y'all.

It's time for SFist Answers! Now that you've asked Questions, we give you Answers. This week we cover hard drugs, bodily functions, and most agonizing of all -- MUNI. Keep those questions flowin' to sfistanswers@gmail.com. Include your question, your name, and your city/neighborhood – just like when you were filling out your craigslist Missed Connections post.

As promised, we're a-reminding you to ask us Questions that you desire us to Answer. What would you have us answer? We are your grenadine-swilling Bay Area oracle of the internets, y'all.

In the spirit of Gavin's Question Time avoidance, and Rita's joyous/ugh mental image of Supervisor McGoldrick dancin' like a tutu-ed circus bear, we're bringing back SFist Answers. So! Do you have some answer that has eluded you for an annoying amount of time? Do you feel that you need some sort of advice? Do you need help with something? Would you like to know what not to do? Hey, we can answer that! We are pro-feshh-ohn-alls! Ask us! Email your question to sfistanswers@gmail.com.

SFist interviews Craig Newmark founder of craigslist

Who's that man -- in the District 6 election? This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Missed Connection.

This week's BART breakdown is brought to you by the letter "T," as in Truck. As in truck stuck on a ruck. Or more like stuck on one of those track switercheroo things that lets trains move from one track to another. D'oh!. No word yet as to whether or not there were any mother------ snakes on the goddamn truck.

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow.

Sad as it may seem, a great deal of joy comes into of our lives by browsing missed connections. While we like to say that it is simply good clean fun to see people's hearts and thoughts scattering across what might have been, the fact remains that we are just just hoping someone writes about us (Cute? At Trader Joe's? Buying Pasta? That could be us!). Despite the smatterings of missed connection success stories that we have heard, we remain a little doubtful that their true "connection" rate is anything above the Mendoza Line. This same view is often expressed on Craigslist. Amusingly, it is generally posted in Missed Connections itself.

SFist is sending out an APB to the world: are you a ravishing young woman? Do you drive a Jeep? Were you driving it around in the Sunset last month? If so, a young man named Luke really, really really wants to speak to you. Consider the dozens of missed connections that have been posted in the past few weeks by the local 30-year-old to be a series of love letters. True, he only spotted you for a fleeting moment as you were driving a Jeep late at night near Judah and 37th -- seemingly tenuous grounds for a love affair -- but, as Luke told us when we contacted him, "Have you ever seen someone and known there was something special about them? That's how I felt when I saw her." Hence the near-daily postings to the missed connections. Excessive? Perhaps. Other craigslist posters have advised him to cool his heels a bit and not seem so eager. Maybe that's why he added to one of his posts, "(not a stalker.)" Mothers, lock up your daughters.

We have that cold that's going around (sniffle), so maybe that's why we find this decongesting plan so intriguing -- but Jake McGoldrick, chair of the SF Transportation Authority (and Chris Daly confrontation survivor), has proposed that San Francisco, like London and Singapore, start charging people tolls to drive into downtown during rush hour. Under McGoldrick's plan, drivers would buy a one-day pass to drive on the busiest streets downtown, and the money would go to MUNI. (Though it does seem like BART and Caltrain should get some cash too, if we're cutting down on East and South Bay drivers as well.) Congestion charging, say its advocates, clears the streets, keeps the smog levels down, makes public transportation more efficient, makes certain areas more pedestrian-friendly, and lets people prioritize how they want to get to work. We'd be the first city in the country to adopt such a plan if we actually decide to do it. Of course, AAA says they think it's a terrible idea, and the chamber of commerce worries that no one would come downtown anymore. But, and maybe this is our bias showing, but honestly, who'd drive anywhere if they didn't have to? Additional bonus: more missed connections to read on Craigslist! We honestly can't see anything bad about this proposal (but welcome enlightenment in the comments). Londonists, we'd love to hear what you guys think of the system too!

It's no big surprise when we here at SFist announce that craigslist has changed all of our lives in some way. Heck, it's even one of our interview questions: "I have found/sold/bought the following on craigslist:".

All those long waits on the N Judah for no forseeable reason have made SFist a big fan of our fine local bookstores and from the San Francisco Public Library. After all, how will we recognize ourselves in missed connections, if not by a mention of the book we're reading?