Sony VCRs eat videotapes and then die. HBO can't master videotapes properly. Editors send comments months after you think the book is finished. Doctors double-immunize infants. Doctors die and their offices lose your records.
Mothers die slowly of terrible diseases.
Toasters refuse to surrender Thomas's English Muffins. But Tony Soprano has problems too. Everything else will fail. And seems to fail faster and faster. Products and services especially.