Adventures of a Railfan part 3 – Ann

Adventures of a Railfan Part 3 – Ann

This is part 3 of my series. In this part, I take a look at my 3rd girlfriend, Ann. Even though that is not her real name. In my series, I have changed everyone’s middle name to their middle name, including myself, to protect our identities. Its the best way to protect everyone.

I was glad to be done with Michelle. Her sweet and innocent ploy had worked on me, and I really thought I was happy. After about 3 months, everything started to go south. It was to the point that she was trying to control me and separate me from my friends and family, and it almost worked! I was so happy when she decided to leave me. I couldn’t wait for her to move all her stuff out of the house. I celebrated her departure by signing back into my account on Plenty of Fish. I know it may have been jumping the gun, but I was ready to move one after 6 months with Michelle, and I was very ready to move on with my life.

I browsed the profiles on PoF for about a month. I managed to talk to a few girls, and they seemed interested in me. After a couple of weeks, I started to get phone numbers and I called each one of them. Some of them seemed nice over the phone, others didn’t really have anything to say, and one of them thought I became rich after Danielle died, and the fact that I was now an Owner/Operator at Capitol First, the Courier company that I work for. Good thing I did not give her my address, because she would have stalked me for months if I did not!

It was about a month after Michelle left me that I saw a profile for a girl who lived fairly close. I messaged her, and a few minutes later, I got a reply. She seemed nice, but she was on her grandparents computer, and she told me to call her at 7. I agreed, and decided to kill some time editing my train pictures. I had been trying, without success, to get a picture approved by Railpictures.net, but even to this day, I have always been turned down, they have been very critical about photos and they only accept the best. Any way, I started to edit my photos and I was having a hard time getting the composition and colors right on a shot of a CSX locomotive when the arranged time of 7 came around.

I called her at 7pm Sharp, and she answered after the 2nd ring.

“Hello, is this Ann?” I asked

“Yes it is”

“Hi Ann, I am William, you gave me your number and wanted me to call you tonight, you know, the guy from PoF” I said, hoping she would remembr

“Oh, Hi! How are you doing?” She seemed to be very pleased that I actually did call her.

After about 5 minutes of talking, she got another call, from her so called sister, Beverly. She came back after a minute. It seems like she wanted her sister to call her as an excuse to get off the phone with me if I seemed like I was a creep. However, she started to like me before she even called.
I found out that she worked at McDonald’s, and had been there for 7 years. Her previous boyfriend had cheated on her, and he dumped his ass after catching him in bed fucking a girls ass in their own bed. She had been with him 8 years and had been single for the past 9 months. I explained to her about my job, that I owned a truck, a 2005 International 3500. She wondered why I did what I did and I told her it was the only thing I was good at and that it also pays good money. I didn’t tell her how much I made per week, only that it was over $1,000. I didn’t want her to fall for me just because of the money I made.

We ended up talking for about 2 hours before she had to go to bed. Since she lived with her grandparents, she had to follow their rules. She moved in with them after she dumped her cheating boyfriend, and since her dad had no space, she could not move in with him. He did however, have his wife, her step-mom, and 2 small children living with him anyway.

I was very happy. I was praying to myself that she would not be another Michelle, but everything she said, it seemed like it was straight from the heart. I ended up going to bed shortly after we hung up, because during the phone call, my dispatcher called me to dispatch me on a load from O’Fallon, Missouri to Shelbyville, Kentucky with a stop in Mt. Vernon, IL and Paducah, KY on the way.

The next day, I was rolling down the interstate, listening to my mix CD of 70’s rock. I had just finished unloading 2 pallets of machinery at the Ameran Illinois Power facility in Mt. Vernon and had just got back on Interstate 65/57 that run together for about 5 miles. It was about this time Ann called me. I knew she was at work but she called me when she went on break. When I answered, I asked her why she had called me during her break when I knew she would be eating. She informed me that she enjoyed talking to me last night and didn’t want to have to wait to get off work to call me again. This comment made me smile, and we talked for a few more minutes then she had to get back to work.

It took longer then I expected to finish in Paducah. I had a delivery to VMV, a Locomotive rebuilder and grave yard. It was not because I was photographing the numerous locomotives they had there, but it was because I could not find anyone in the Shipping and Receiving department.