Attention! Attention! An emergency has been reported in this building. Please cease operations and leave the building utilizing the nearest exit or fire exit stairway. Do not use elevators. Repeat: do not use elevators.

There are so many things that can distract us from the more important things, events, and people in our lives. I know there are some who have the propensity to panic when bad things happen, but whenever possible, I choose to hold that worry until I know there is something about which to be concerned.
Besides, experience tells us that panicking does more harm that good. I remember, some 50 years ago, having to evacuate our school building because of a bomb threat (No, those aren't new.). The same thing happened when I was in high school (at least once). I remember practicing, every year, for fires and tornados. I recall being evacuated from the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Maryland - having to walk down several flights of stairs to exit onto the street - because of a fire alarm. These events are good practice, and we take them seriously, but they are also an indication of the low probability of being in a real situation.
Thankfully, I saw no one panicking on our side of the hotel in July, and it was a great way for us to bond together at breakfast and throughout the following day. Some people were awfully tired after working so hard to fall asleep for the second time an hour later. It didn't affect our schedule, and we had one more thing in common to talk about. It also made for a nice little story of adventure upon the return home.
These things happen, and these days I'm even looking for them to happen. The Baltimore trip was my first trip alone. That, along with my missed flights in returning from Mount Vernon, the thunderstorm with bateauing on Lake Champlain at Fort Ticonderoga, and the "crash" landing at the Orlando Airport this May.
Perhaps the AJR lyric below is what I think about when these things happen, and now that I accept this as fact, I sickly anticipate these little adventures just so I can tell the stories.
A hundred bad days made a hundred good stories
A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties
Yeah, no, I ain't scared of you
No, I ain't scared of you no more