 and then on your way out the door, take a big, juicy bite. And I never did that. I never even came close to doing that. It wasn't the writing part of my job that worried me, but you know how some people are afraid of spiders and some people are afraid of heights? When I started at the White House, I discovered that my very specific, very crippling fear was of being in an enclosed space with an important person and having to say things.