Grace under pressure, but nowhere else

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I’m surprisingly good under pressure. Give me an emergency and I’m as chill as they come.

For example, when my daughter was about to be born, I was anything but the frantic father. I simply took care of business, getting my wife to the hospital in time to deliver, and never felt overly stressed about it.

But trying to keep a cat from playing with the bedroom door this morning stressed me out until I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

That’s not overly shocking, though.