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

Bladder control issues.

The other day I was driving back from lunch at the Mexican restaurant when urge hit me about 5 minutes from the office. I dialed it in and made it back in tine.

Failed my very first exam in medical school. Like bottom of the class failed. Went the the profs office and asked for advice and she said to study more. I couldn’t imagine possibly studying any harder than I did. I went back at it and memorized every word of every slide in the PowerPoints for the next exam. Scored a 92. She called me back into her office and asked how I cheated. She said she had never seen that type of rebound and I just have cheated.

Back in the late '70s and early '80s, I was a member of a Boy Scout Explorer program that was affiliated with our city's (17K pop in Southern Arkansas) Police Department. We rode shotgun in the car with the officer, We got to work the radio for the officer if things were routine. We also did things like traffic control at accidents.

One evening while I was riding with the Sgt who was one of the sponsors of the Explorer post, he received a call to a domestic situation at one of the projects. Our city had about 8-10 government housing projects. We pulled up at the address, and the officer got out and approached the door, while I stood back by the car and observed with a walkie-talkie in hand. The officer knocked on the door and a guy opened it with a pistol in hand. The officer simultaneously drew his revolver, began backpedaling to the side, and yelled for the man to drop his gun. The man came around the corner raising the gun while looking at the officer and then at me, he started to pivot towards me and the officer shot him in the head about 15 feet away from me. It was from start to finish in a few seconds. A .357 hollow point does a lot of damage to a skull.

That was my most pressure-filled situation, I never want to relive it.

ETA Picture of where it happened

Paid to develop 2 networked apps for MTV and was flown directly to the Santa Monica airport Friday night where the hardware had to be unboxed and the apps running by Monday evening. I pounded coffee and took 10 minute catnaps but pulled it off and even had a little time leftover to create a couple rudimentary reports for them to check out the feedback from the end of the tour to show them which videos were more popular by location. This was the infamous "mtv campus invasion" and after showing the bigwigs got to watch them load the whole shebang into a cargo plane and take off.

One of the proudest accomplishments of my life and a nice payday for 3 days work.

I was in a small riot in which guns came out and two shots were fired. I was cool as a cucumber. Of course, I was only 18, so I didn’t have a lot of sense. That was 42 years ago. It seems like it happened to a different person.

One time I was in a submarine looking at the titanic and the walls started closing in. Lots of pressure.