My wife had been upset for some time about the man living in the apartment next door. Mr. Miyashita, the neighbor, had been known to smoke in the common space and had other questionable behaviors regarding residential manners... Being a pacifist and herbivorous character, I tried to calm him down by laughing and saying, "Don't make so much of a fuss." Oh, by the way, my wife had just given birth... Even now, she was still producing a fair amount of breast milk...