You Know You Married a Cop When...

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...A text message conversation goes like this:

Me:  How's your day going?

Gumshoe:  Good.  Had an interesting call-out today.

Me:  Really?  What about?

Gumshoe:  It's too weird.  I'll have to tell you when I get home.

Me:  Give me a clue...

Gumshoe:  It involved flashbangs, crackheads, horses and a trumpet serenade.  

Me:  Ummm...

Gumshoe:  I'm not kidding.

And he really wasn't.  He has proof.  Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately depending on how you look at it) I can't share those photos, but please allow my amazing word imagery and the above photo I got from googling "crackhead" fill in the blanks for you:

Gumshoe was serving a search warrant in a very nasty part of the city.  The swat team had to use a flashbang before entering the home which garnered the desired effect, but also drew quite a crowd of neighbors. 

After the commotion died down and the bad guys had been rounded up and handcuffed outside of the house, Gumshoe proceeded to interview some of the suspects.  In the middle of the interrogations, Gumshoe stops because he hears the distant sound of coconut shells clacking together.  Coconuts?  Yes...coconuts.

As he listens a little harder and begins to look around, he realizes it's not coconuts, but the clacking of horse hooves.  (Neither scenario makes any sense, so coconut shells really weren't a bad guess).  And just like out of a scene from a busted-up Braveheart, a crackhead warrior on horseback began to approach the crowd of neighbors and shout obscenities encouraging words to the crowd and to the officers.  As the warrior got closer to the perimeter that had been set up, the officers had to threaten deadly force upon the horse or else.  Upon hearing this threat, the warrior relented and rode off into the sunset.  Good thing because no one wants to shoot a horse. 

As if the day couldn't get any weirder...as the warrior was riding away another crackhead gentleman stepped out of the nearby liquor store with a bright shiny trumpet and began to serenade the crowd and the officers...

There are a lot of questions to be answered here: Where did this guy come from?  Why did he have a horse in the middle of the city?  Where was he riding off to?  Why did the guy at the liquor store have a trumpet?  Why did this seem like an appropriate time to ride a horse or play a trumpet?  Why was Gumshoe thinking about coconuts?  And the list goes on...

Really?  Really!  Never a dull moment.