Saturday, December 1, 2007

Glove Matchmaking

I presume you have to produce the non-missing one to prove it's yours.

PITTSBURGH - It's like an online dating service for long lost gloves. No, that's not a typo.

A Texas native who experienced her first snowflakes in Pittsburgh last year was miffed by the lost gloves she spotted all over the city last winter. Whom did they belong to? Wouldn't they want them back? Why were people just walking past them?

So Jennifer Gooch, who is pursuing her master of fine arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University, started onecoldhand.com in an effort to reunite dropped gloves with their mates — and in the process spread some goodwill.

Gooch, originally from Dallas, photographs each glove and puts the picture and information on her Web site, where people can report found gloves and request stickers. She hasn't made any glove connections in the two weeks the site has been live, but it's OK if that never happens, she said.

"If I have one person find their glove, then the entire thing is totally worth it," she said.

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