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Lesson 33 A day to remember 难忘的一天 We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day maybegin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. Whatinvariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong atprecisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up achain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping aneye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks theprelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone,the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table, smashing half your best crockeryand cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby,crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough toreduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three gueststo dinner. Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recentlydiscovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one eveningtwo cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behindthe two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic andstopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife wassitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cakewent right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flyingthrough the air, a lorrydriver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of asudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slidoff the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angryargument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly anhour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driverhad to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited fromall this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. Itwas just one of those days! | 
