Meet my first love at the Fire Department (er...Ambulance Department might be a better description) I was a member of. I had just gotten back from Lexington, KY (hour drive away) on a personal supply run for myself and a few other members to
Galls. She was new and going through orientation. The lady giving the orientation asked me to finish up when the unit got called on a run, as the girl only had 10 minutes remaining and right after she had to pickup her 2yr old daughter, so she couldn't go on the run.
A few nights later we were on the same shift together. Wound up talking about any and everything...did that for the next two weeks (I ran a lot and we wound up running together a few times during that time). We spent most nights talking in the bay until morning shift came in. Somehow one night we wound up making out, then decided to go out the next evening. Dated for about 2 years, until she broke it off.
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Meet the second one twice...kind of. The first time I talked to her I had just graduated HS and was a week shy of 18 (just before the first love). I was on AOL chatting when she IMd me. She saw my profile and that we lived in the same 'small town', and that I was on the FD. Wound up IMing for a month about insignificant things, then lost touch. I was a little cautious as she was only 15.
Fast forward 3 years...me and a buddy were returning from a evening run on the Ambulance and stopped at the local mini-mart. As I go to pay for my snack-food and pop, the cashier gives me a really weird look and keeps staring at my work shirt which had my first initial and last name embroidered on it. She finally asks if my name is Mike, and I said yes...trying to figure out where I knew her from. To make a long story short, it was the IM girl...we wound up becoming friends and chatting when I came in to get stuff. One night (mid-week) I invited her to a late-night dinner, I had just got off a shift and she hadn't eaten yet. Dinner was nice, so we made a date for that Friday and went to a nice restaurant and a club afterwards. Lasted for about 8 months...until I broke it off. Still wonder about that one, almost three years later.