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[00:01.49]Lesson 33
[00:03.48]A day to remember
[00:11.75]What incident began the series of traffic accidents?
[00:17.61]We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong.
[00:21.83]A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control.
[00:27.82]What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.
[00:35.44]It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions.
[00:41.54]Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time.
[00:48.50]The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes.
[00:55.73]While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table,
[01:00.96]smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process.
[01:06.32]You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc.
[01:10.98]Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt.
[01:13.78]As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears,
[01:17.11]your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
[01:23.00]Things can go wrong on a big scale
[01:25.75]as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney.
[01:31.92]During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue.