 What didn't happen with the telephone?
After an abnormal delay, I got one which exactly missed the express at Fourteenth Street. Psychiatry tells us that some people are accident-prone; I, on the other hand, seemed recently to be coincidence-prone, fluke-happy, and except for the alarm clock, I'd had no control over what had been going on. This gave them exactly no room to move either forward or backward, for the car had its back to a hydrant and the taxi to a lamp. Although rather narrow, this is a two-way street, and in no time at all, traffic was stacked up from both directions as far as the avenues.
 Mr. Graham dropped it
 it worked whenever Mr. Graham tried to use it  it repeatedly called Molly's mother  someone needed to come to fix it  Mr. Graham dropped it