Gotta start somewhere...

Well it's the oldest story in the book, coworkers fall in love. It's only interesting because we met in prison.

Oh, and, it's fabulously interesting to me because it's about me.

Anywho…in the spring of 2012 I took a job in the medical department of a county prison. There were some bad guys there, but mostly junkies and parole violators. I was 28 years old, a small blonde girl who smiled too much. At first - the inmates intimidated the heck out of me. Thank goodness for the officers there to protect me! …yeah. The officers. Half of me was as equally intimidated by the stares of the uniformed men who spent 40 hours a week surrounded by other men, as I was by the stares of the inmates themselves. The other half of me loved it, duh! (I did not make any female friends at this job. Shocking.) Lots of other nurses and female staff dated officers - a lot of them. I avoided that (of course I was labeled "easy" and a "slut" anyway 😒). One officer seemed to be working my shift every time it was my weekend on, being assigned to whatever part of the department I was in, answering calls when I needed an escort…he was around, a lot. I knew he had a crush and I gotta tell ya, I wasn't interested.


I left my job and only then exchanged phone numbers. When he point-blank asked me out, a real date on a specific day, I just…said yes. I assumed he'd see we had nothing in common & that would be that, but boy was I wrong! I had an absolute blast despite being mortified (he took me to a hockey game and I wound up on that big jumbotron screen winning a prize - just shoot me!), conversation flowed and he had this way of making me feel at ease. Didn't hurt that he was obviously nervous and that was completely adorable! At the end of the night, we stood by my car and I just thought, "Well may as well see if this is anything" so after beating around the bush & NOT saying goodnight, I asked if he was "gonna kiss me or what."

He kissed me, and yadda yadda yadda…two years later I'm blogging(!) about my husband(!!).




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