The Old Barnstable Butterfly Effect

The guarantee that gingerly moving one small item on a bedside table while your partner is sleeping will set off an elaborate domino reaction, only ending when a lamp inexplicably falls over, knocking a heavy standing mirror out of an open window and through a windscreen of a neighbour's car, thus setting off all the alarms and calling the police to be called, riot vans to be deployed and helicopters to circle the sleepy suburban estate. §

verified Mrs. P. Akande · TML/F-204 · clerk P.W.

See also TML-2432 (q.v.)