Content's of the Dead Man's Pocket Paragraph

In the story "Content's of the Dead Man's pocket" Tom Benecke makes a very Life threatning decision. He decides to go out the window ledge to get a paper or work that had blown out the window. When he did go out the window and got the piece of paper he realized that he puts to much time into his work than with his wife. If he had not grabbed the yellow piece of paper he still would be focused on his work than spending time with Clare. She would of probably wanted to go spend time with him like go to see a premire in theater. Tom wouldn't of known how Clare felt because she didn't tell him; but he probably would still be comitted to his work. It's good that a life threating decision changed his mind about the way he looked at things.