FiFo

You’re all familiar with the term FiFo? Fly in – Fly out? A transient worker who usually does two weeks on, one week off. Getting flown to the job site (usually a mine or something) then having to stay in the camp. That’s this guy, usually they seem to be diesel mechanics, but I have no idea what this guy does! Hahaha… One day he does send me snaps of him in a tractor & he says he’s moving poo. I ask if it’s actual poo & he just replies poo. Rightio then!

We chat for almost two weeks pretty regularly, he replies to all my snaps and keeps the conversation going when I stop talking to him. He keeps talking about catching up when he gets home & I actually think that I am going to meet this guy, he’s not ugly, he’s 38 & lives in Adelaide, so why not. Didn’t my lash lady say her best friend met her partner on snapchat random add! This could be the guy…

I honestly don’t remember much on the conversation, as you know Snapchat delete after 24 hours & if you chat a lot, I forget to go back & copy it. You can’t screenshot it without them knowing too. So I never know who is going to be blog worthy to start writing about & when I realise they are blog worthy, I have forgotten what we’ve talked about!

So this one night, he kind of has a meltdown! All he’s written to me all day is that he’ll be home in nine days & that he’s going to see my ‘fanny’, yes, fanny! I tell him about 30+ times to stop calling it my fanny but he keeps going, like it’s not even funny dude… My family have been at my house so I just don’t reply to his ridiculous messages. He’s obviously back in his room & bored, so messages me about my fanny. But he cracks it cos I don’t reply.

The last few days too, his messages have just be repetitive. On the Saturday, he sends one word messages, I don’t even remember why but he keeps saying “Everything.” The day before that, he keeps calling me a “meanie” because I wouldn’t send him pictures – probably of my fanny, but doesn’t really engage in conversation, even when I try. Why am I trying with this guy?!

For some reason, one night he asks me to call him but I say no & he says I’m obviously not interested – not because I won’t call but because I haven’t chatted much. I just say that I’m not even sure what to reply to half his one word messages, that he’s not given me much to reply too, so what doesn’t he want from me? He says something about me being away, which he knows I wasn’t as I snapped pictures of me & the dogs on the beach, so I have no clue what this guy is on… He says something else, which I don’t get to see because he deletes me from snapchat.

Stupidly I decide to send him a text as he’s given me his number. He replies & tells me that I’ve not given him a chance, so I’ll never know – I mean we have been chatting so I have been giving him a chance. He tells me that I’m stuck up but that means I have brains & says cheers for the extra loneliness. Are you fucking kidding me??? I reply that all he’d said to me that day was basically “fanny” – even though I asked him not to call it that or keep saying it or he called me “meanie.” I mean what I am supposed to write back to those captivating messages? Now even this blog is getting repetitive like him!

I head back to snapchat to screenshot & block him but he’s added me back… Bahahaha! What the actual fuck. I just leave him there, but I don’t delete him. I wake up to a text message that says “I was only joking around bloody hell” but I don’t think that he was joking at all… This guy is away for work & I bet he gets like me when I am away for work – you get over it quickly! He doesn’t text me or snapchat me at all after that…

A few days or so later, he’s deleted me again, so I block him & think that is the end, he deleted me right, so he won’t use my number… But of course he does… I have him saved in my phone as ‘Do Not Answer’ & when it comes up on my watch I think, who the fuck is this, then I remember. He says “I’m sorry” then I get “I still want to see you” & then he sends about 20 minutes later “#IBD4U.” I don’t click on them to mark them as read but think he’s iPhone & I’m android so he won’t be able to see if I read them or not. I don’t reply. I am not interested in whatever this guy has to offer.

#IBD4U