Chain of Events
Ever since I read the book “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” I’ve wondered about the ways that I effect people without knowing it. In the book a small child chasing a baseball causes a car accident without ever noticing. Seeing how the chain of events leads to changing lives made me want to go buy cheap health insurance and drive extra carefully. The curious Case of Benjamin Button touched on this idea as well.
A chain reaction was also apparent in a recent Family Jewels episode. Shannon & her sister Tracy unknowingly ruined someone’s wedding. Tracy fell asleep with the bathtub on causing a flood. The flood leaked down into the bottom room ruining a bride’s wedding dress. The sisters heard the maintenance people talking about it and ran away to a business meeting on a golf course. Gene had failed to make it clear that his wife was conducting the meeting instead of himself so they had planned on golfing when the girls had little to no experience. The sisters hit someone in the head with a golf ball and ran over a stranger with a golf cart. The stranger sprained his ankle & was coincidentally unable to go to work the next day. He was the preacher at the dress-less bride’s wedding. The sisters again met the bride when she was crying in the bathroom at her rehearsal dinner. Shannon became an ordained minister and a new dress was found. I don’t know if it was all setup. Either way when I get married I’m definitely going to ask if the Tweed sisters are in town first.
