A lot of emails like this in the in-box:

I’m asking myself what I would say to a
man who has pledged to lay down his
life for me, to take a bullet for me, if
he accidentally knocks me down on
a ski slope *while* trying his best to
protect me.
I think that I say: “Don’t worry about
it. You’re doing your job. I appreciate
it.”
And to onlookers: “Got tangled up with
my guardian angels up there and went down.
We need more practice at this.”
But: “I don’t fall. That blankety-blank
knocked me down”?