On one summer evening, Justin was at work (Santa Monica Fire Department) and Tatum was out with her friends in Santa Monica. The apartment Tatum was at shared the alley with the Fire Station... bet you know where this is going! After a few drinks, Tatum and her friends went out on the balcony and one of her friends shouted if there were any single firefighters over there because there was a single girl with Midwestern values, a 401k, and some other things we won't put in writing.. :) Justin waved that he was single and came over to her balcony, scaled the building (dramatized) giving Tatum a firefighter badge with his number on the back. The next night he asked her out to dinner and as the saying goes, "The rest was history".