You know....

You know your Significant Other is a LEO (law enforcement officer)

...when you are able to list everyone's badge number or when you start to refer to people by their last names only

...when people introduce you but feel the need to include what your spouse does (and then make the "oh, watch out" or "don't shoot" jokes)

...when you know how to assemble your spouse's uniform- pens, nametag, notebook, body mic & so on included

...when your social circle is only filled with other cops and their families

...when your child has ridden to daycare in a patrol car (and you get the "they're arresting them younger every day" jokes)

...when you have to quit going to certain restaurants because your spouse has arrested people who work there

...when your last name gets recognized in public, and not in a good way

...when you've had to stand there while someone tells their child that if they don't behave "that police man is going to arrest you" and it's all you can do to not scream at them.

...when your husband has ever driven up in the drive way and said over his PA "Babe, can you bring me my radio" or when he has driven up and flashed the spotlight into the front windows to get your attention.

...when you've gone to or hung out at an extra job just so you can spend time with your spouse.

... when holiday plans are made like this, "Honey, what day are we having Christmas this year? My mom wants to know!"

...when it is common at your workplace to be told, "Hey, there's a cop here looking for you."

...when you slow down at accidents not to look at the crash but to see if there's somebody there directing traffic that you know.

...when you are more proud of your LEO than anyone else you know is with their husband's job.

...when the reading material next to the toilet is SGN (shotgun news) and Guns and Ammo

...when the gun safe is crammed full and your leo says "I need more guns and another safe"

...when a great birthday present is a gift certificate to the local gun/ammo store

...when you finally get a day off together and either the department calls with questions, a fellow LEO calls to chat or he gets called into work because someone is sick.

...when your kids know all the police officers in both your leo's department and the departments he backs up

...when you start to look at val tags on licence plates

...when you start recite numbers and letters in the phonetic alphabet

...when you smile when you see an officer pulled over on the side of the road (instead of claming up and hammering your brakes)

...when you keep better track of their court dates than they do

...when you go out to eat, you give him the seat facing the door without thinking about it.

...when instead of calling professionals that specialize in something, they call a patrol buddy to come fix something that is broke.

...when its not "dinner at a friends house," its "a BBQ at so and so's and his wife will be there."

...when you call your LEO and treport traffic jams because they are making you mad and late.

...when Co-workers come to you to find out when the next police property auction is and what they should stay away from.

...when you go on vacation and you LEO asks a local cop so "see his setup"

...when he shines the spotlight into the house after a power outage

...when you think it is perfectly normal to hear people screaming in the background and not get panicked.

...when candlelit dinners are replaced with red and blue strobes during a multiple car rollover on highway 94.

...when Instead of normal gifts everyone gets him those shirts that say "what not to say to a cop" haha

...when people tell you your husband harrassed them and to you it means he pulled them over

...when you have a get together with LEO and non LEO people and you have to apologize prior to the non LEO's for the LEO's language and manners


The ones in the red are the ones that I can relate to!
Blue ones are the newest updated 02/24/08