'I fail to see
- because I do not happen to be a " Somebody"
- why my diary should be not be interesting' Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition content with his clerkly lot So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen impudent young clerks & wayward friends? & what is he to do about his son Lupin's distinctly unsuitable choice of bride? However hard he tries life piles its little mishaps on his head
- but he's not about to give up