for instance my secretary , penelope , had a fight with her live-in boyfriend , and i was at the police station with her and in the process of helping her get a temporary protective order placed on his skinny , neer-do-well ass , when i got a call from my wife telling me that she was having labor painsand although that by no means is a bad thing , its a wonderful thing , it 's yet within the classification of a thing to be handled immediately in one fashion or another .