巴迪家族有四个兄弟，其大小与名字的长度相符，他们是：
EVERYBODY,
SOMEBODY,
ANYBODY,
和 
NOBODY.

故事开始的时候家里正好有一件简单而重要的事情要做，如给母亲的生日订一束
花，一个蛋糕等　－－

EVERYBODY was sure SOMEBODY would do it.
ANYBODY could have done it, but
NOBODY did it.

SOMEBODY got angry about that because 
it was EVERYBODY's job.
EVERYBODY thought ANYBODY could do it, but
NOBODY realized that 
EVERYBODY wouldn't do it.

It ended up that
EVERYBODY blamed SOMEBODY when 
NOBODY did what 
ANYBODY could have done. 

8/29/2001