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Personal Ads for Clothes

Penelope tussled with the newspaper, just trying to get it open. Damn things, no wonder online news was getting more popular. It was like trying to fold a map, which was also going the way of the dodo, with GPS .

But neither online news or GPS ’s had the section she saw: “Personal Ads” for clothes. Not “Want Ads”, not “Thrifties”, not “For Sale”. It was a small section, but with words like ‘big girl jeans looking for big girl legs’, and ‘70’s halter top ISO a modest chest’, how couldn’t it catch her eye?

She read further.

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