I have been wanting to make a blog about this forever, but have just never found the time. I opened a coffee shop a week ago and I realized that the mornings (4am-6am) are pretty slow, so I finally am going to sit down and write these out!
I have come up with some of these on my own, but I owe my sisters behind the badge a lot of the credit! I am sharing these because I feel like we spouses don't get nearly the credit that we are due. These are obviously funny to us, but maybe we can speak to some outsiders about why we are the way we are. Plus, this is just plain fun.
You might be a police spouse if...
1. You have 10 subpoenas on your kitchen counter
2. You see a car making a traffic violation and you want to pull them over because you now know the infractions by heart--after all, you helped your spouse learn them (Melissa A.)
3. When hearing velcro in the middle of the night makes you happy because you know your LEO is home (Anna W)
4. Your kids play shoplifter and police officer (Sarah S)
5. When everyone and their mother call to ask, "Do you know why there's police SUVs zooming past us on the freeway?" --it's always an hour from where his jurisdiction is too! (Lory S)
6. When you find bullets, handcuff keys, plastic gloves, or other paraphernalia in the washing machine
7. You know full and well what "cop mode" means--and you avoid him during those times (Krystal A)
8. When your husband texts in 10-codes rather than full sentences-- 10-4 (Mandy M)
9. You know all your husbands coworkers by their last name--to be honest you don't know half of their first names--to be more honest, you only know one of their first names
10. You celebrate Christmas three days before Christmas and convince the kids that Santa makes special trips to police houses because dad is working a double again--to be honest, this is true for every holiday (Melissa A)
11. Your mom asks how your husband's night was last night and you respond, "Great! He got a DUI!"--for the record, he was giving the DUI not receiving; mom was shocked for a few seconds.
12. You always have to sit facing the wall at restaurants, so that your spouse can face the windows/front door--at this point, you even do it when you are alone or with friends because you are so used to it--the real fun is when you go out to dinner with another LE family and there's that awkward moment where the guys have an alpha moment (I'm thinking of my dogs here)
13. When you're in Walmart and your LEO walks away with "that look" you should keep walking like you've never met him before in your life
14. You meet someone really nice and you're super excited to get to know them better, so you add them on Facebook...only to find their first post says, "F the police"--annnnnd delete.
15. Speaking of Walmart ^ You never send your LEO there alone because he eventually comes home two hours later with a huge grin on his face. You don't even have to ask anymore to know that he found someone who had a warrant and he called them in and got them arrested.
16. You've gotten a call to bring him his (insert gear item here) because he only got 2 hours of sleep and got called out to assist with something. His memory hardly functions when he has enough sleep, let alone no sleep.
17. Your response to, "what does your husband do?" is either one of two things..."He's a cop!" or, "He works for the city/county/state"
18. You know every pressure point and many arrest techniques because they have inevitably been tried on you at some point
19. When you have a driveway full of cruisers and neighbors DON'T worry--well maybe the new neighbors are worried, but they finally catch on (Christina W)
20. When your spouse speeds to get next to an on-duty cruiser so he can wave at his friend--all while you freak out and think you're going to jail
21. You always have to answer the question, "Can you tell I'm wearing a gun?"
22. Your new favorite restaurant is Subway...or any other restaurant that makes the food in front of you.
23. Whenever someone spells your name wrong, you correct them by saying, "oh, I'm sorry it's Brie- Boy Robert Ida Edward"
24. Every outlet in your house is taken due to radios, cell phones, beepers, flashlights, etc.
25. Your spouse says, "disregard" on the phone (JoDee D)
26. You've tripped over a duty belt at least once.
27. You have a wonderful group of sisters, most of whom you've never met, but you know they'd do anything for you if you needed it! <3
