re: What's the most pressure filled situation that you have ever been in?

I was probably 20 years old and was at a work party at coworker's house with about a dozen or more of us. We were all drinking and dancing. One of the ladies there had a husband who had recently gotten out of prison. One of my buddies was dancing with the lady. We were all friends from work. The husband drives up, and was pretty drunk and walks in while his wife was dancing. He pulls out a very large knife and says he is going to kill my friend. Everyone got out of his way, except me. My friend was trapped in the corner and I was the only one between him and this drunk angry ex felon. Everyone was pleading with him and he was really angry and crying like his wife had cheated on him. I told him man you don't want to go back to jail. It's not worth it. He said I am going to kill him, get out of my way. I said no one is getting killed. He started moving forward, and I yelled at him that he was going to have to go through me. I thought to myself, there's a really good chance I am about to die. I was a football player and wrestler in high school, but man that was a big knife and the man was bigger than me. My adrenaline was through the roof, but I remained focused on a likely dangerous fight and kept trying to reassure the guy that this was an innocent dance. No one else was closing in on the guy to help. They were all scared and just pleading with the guy. He finally just dropped to the ground and started crying. I knelt down and put my arm on him and just kept telling him that it was all innocent and his wife was not cheating on him and we are all just coworkers and friends. He put his knife up and calmed down and finally left with his wife. Within a month they were divorced.