My father and stepmother knew that my baby brother was going
to have to be born by Caesarean. Nonetheless, flush with parental
enthusiasm, they decided that Dad was to take photos of the event.
The roll of film was duly taken and sent off to be processed,
however when we got the little package back we found it to be full
of someone's holiday snaps. There had been a mix-up and someone
else was, at that very moment, finding photos of an operation
instead of beaches and smiling faces...
When the developers arranged a swap they told us the other people
had been "very upset".