Man On A Ledge Access

In the movie, they send a psychologist. In real life, my negotiator came in the form of my seven-year-old daughter.

I realized: The ledge is not the crisis. The ledge is the perception of the crisis.

Last Tuesday, at 2:00 PM, I became the "man on a ledge." No, I wasn't running from the law or trying to prove my innocence to a skeptical city. I was standing in my kitchen, staring at a bank statement.

I almost snapped at her. Don't you see I'm trying to save the house? But I didn't. Because suddenly, the ledge felt a little wider.