Or at least my hubby is involved in them! Another officer RAN OVER his foot tonight!!!! No I am not kidding! He's ok nothing's broken just badly bruised. He spent most the night at the hospital. And I waited up for him - why this is posting after 1 am when we are supposed to be getting a bright and early start tomorrow to start the 4+ hour trip to his parents. Right before our vacation of course! I hope he's not in pain and can enjoy the stuff we have planned! Night all just had to share!

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Tessa

I always thought being a police officer ment that you were shown respect by the public. Now I totally understand complaining about the cop who gave you a ticket for only doing 4 over ~ trust me I've been there done that (before meeting my hubby of course!) But any other time I always thought of police officers as THE LAW, public servants, people who deserve respect. After marrying a police officer I had even more respect for the job they do considering what they get PAID! My husband has to wear a bullet proof vest to work, deals with people who are having a bad day most of the time, sometimes having the worst day of their life, and is shown no respect, no gratitude and could die doing it. Tonight I met Andrew at Burger King for dinner - high class I know but I will take what I can get. They do give him a discount when he is in uniform. However from the moment we walked in people were staring us down! I mean glaring! Every once in awhile I've seen people do that but tonight it was everyone in the resteraunt! One couple who was leaving walked by our table and made pig noises at me - ME (Andrew doesn't know they made noise he was waiting for our food - I just said they stared me down)! What did I do? Apparently I am equally hated for being married to a police officer! This of course spurred a discussion between us. I am going on about how I just don't understand why people HATE police officers sooooo much. And what are the chances of someone coming after me and the boys due to the fact that Andrew is an officer. I told him I don't choose to live my life that way -(he got all worried) - meaning I choose NOT to live in constant fear. He said that was good but not to be naive either - since apparently I can be a naive farm girl! While I think eating dinner with a police officer makes me safer it actually puts me at risk. I think having a police car present at our house several times a week makes us safer it actually makes us a target. So I suggested that the chances of someone actually targeting or harming us in St. Joe being small he says it's actually an equal chance, it only takes one person.
Ah well one more reason I can't wait to move out of the city limits! And the funniest part is that Andrew is soooooooooo soft spoken! If you met him off duty the only thing that might give him away is his haircut - people think he's military all the time. I tease him that he's the cop you WANT to get pulled over by cause he gives out more warnings than anything. I tell ya I am sure being a police officer is tough but being married to one I think I got him beat!

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Tessa