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A pudgy, fanny-pack-wearing 40-year-old man who lives with his mother is so desperate to find love, he’s posting handwritten personal ads at payphones around the city.
On paper, Malik Turner sounds like a fairly eligible bachelor — at first: He’s single, gainfully employed as a “sorter/bagger” for the United Parcel Service, loves the color red, roots for the Rangers and Jets.
The Harlem man loves movies, nightclubs, Coney Island and Atlantic City. His hobbies include playing video games and riding the subway.
Written in clear print and with extreme specificity, Turner’s ad says he’s seeking a blond, long-haired, “big-chested, curvy, leggy, voluptuous (NOT FAT)” woman — or women — age 21 to 45, “willing to take turns paying on date (NO GOLDDIGGERS!!!!!).”
“I’ve posted four or five around the city,” Turner told The Post yesterday.
Turner says he came up with the idea for the fliers after co-workers warned him about women who troll Internet dating sites.
Mainly, as the ad makes clear, he wanted to avoid “hookers, she-males, transsexuals, transvestites.”
“I go to nightclubs, but it’s hard for me to find a woman of my own. I talk to them, dance with them, but sometimes I don’t get their cellphone numbers,” he said.
When hearing of her son’s approach to finding love, his mom got angry.
“What did you do, Malik?” she yelled. “What did you do?”
Asked how rigid he was about his ad’s criteria, he said, “I’m not interested in anything else.”
He is not searching for a fairy tale, or even a long-term relationship.
“I just want casual and promiscuous because I don’t want anything serious,” he said.