Farm personal ad
I wonder if this is why I'm not having any luck. I've been planting my messages in wheat, when I should have been using corn.
This is one of the perplexing problems of our time. How does one go about indicating to others that he (or perhaps more problematic, she) is available for courting.
There used to be fairly well-defined guidelines for the process, but now they are a lot more subtle and confusing. How do you let someone know that you like them and are interested in pursing a relationship?
Farmer writes personal ad in cornfield
It sounds a little corny. A farmer looking for love has planted a personals ad, using corn stalks in a cow pasture. It reads: "S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm'n." Underneath is a 1,000-foot-long arrow pointing single white females to his house.
"It only took me about an hour - I did it with a corn planter in May," Pieter DeHond said Wednesday as he removed weeds from the 18-acre field. "I was just horsing around."
In place of a newspaper ad, DeHond said he decided on an impulse to use up the extra corn seed left after spring planting at his 200-acre Pleasure Acres farm in western New York.
"I wouldn't place a personal ad in the paper. To me it seems desperate," he added, laughing. "This is more of a fun thing. I put this out in a field where nobody could see it unless you flew over it."
The 41-year-old divorced father said running a business and looking after his two teenagers doesn't leave a lot of room for socializing.
His corn stalk appeal, featured this week in his hometown Daily Messenger newspaper, has already drawn quite a few phone calls and e-mails.
"I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little proud," DeHond said.
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