You Know you are the Significent Other of someone in EMS or the Fire Department When

You Know you are the Significant Other of someone in EMS or the Fire Department When...

You wake up to your alarm clock and shout "will you shut that fucking pager off already"
Your idea of a massage is having your S.O. practice secondary survey on you.
Your idea of forplay is a priapism sweep or a check for wettness.
You have many EMS or fire shirts and never bought one.
Your idea of a turn on is wearing their sweaty gear.
You have ever been stood up for a call.
You see Backdraft and want to imitate the hosebed scene
You have ever waited 6 hours while they went on a "quick" call.
You are more familar with their station that your parents home.
You can discuss dismemberment at the dinnertable without vommiting.
You belong to one of the following clubs: Ferno, code 3, Hosebed, Hotride (did I cover them all).
You have memorised all their radio codes.
You have a scanner and all of their frequiences programmed in.
You read webpages like this one :-)
You find yourself suddenly "coverless" as your S.O. does a 360 and falls out of bed, taking all the covers with him when the pager goes off.
You bring books to read while you wait at the statoin for them to get back from the quick call.
You take separate vehicles to family gatherings or other events in fear that you may be stranded there
You call your S.O. enroute so he can drive with two hands
You become an emt or dispatcher just to get to see him!
You put on your wedding program: "Do to the solem nature of the occasion we ask that you turn off or down all fire and med pagers."
when you can identify all parts of the body (inside and out),know drugs and their calculations/doses, and know how to work a
pumper and have never attended a single class.
when he keeps asking you to pose nude in his bunkers for his locker...
when you have more Gall's and Firehouse magazines spread throughout the house than books.
have to dedicate a whole room for all the fire memorbilia he has collected.
when ever you go on a road trip and have to stop at all the local fire stations to meet the "guys" and find out their average calls per year, and what apparatus they have. (That would've been five hour trip turns into a day and a half.)
When you go to Disneyworld, he is more excited to meet the Disney firemen rather than Mickey.
as soon as you show signs of sickness he and his buddies want to stick you with an IV instead of giving you Pepto or NyQuil.
When he (and the rest of the VFF crew) beg you to have the baby at home so he/they can deliver you.
if you have ever talked about moving and the decision is down to whether or not there is a volunteer department or not.
When traveling with your child instead of looking at nice cars he says "Look Ambulance nice one nice lights to".
When the family car is a mini Ambulance First Aid bag,scope, blood pressure cuff, etc also red light, sirens, scanner, in glove box instead of cloth gloves there is rubber gloves (very important:).
When your 3 year old thinks that every Ambulance is Dada and he want to be an E.M.T when he's a big boy.
When the burgers are done and your husband leaves for rolls only to return 12 hours later after a barn fire.

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