Can you provide me a summary of the story " Packing for the journey " by Jerome K Jerome ?
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Jerome forgets to put in various items, which have to be pointed out to him by the others. Then he gets worried that he’s forgotten to pack his toothbrush. He confesses his toothbrush ‘is a thing that haunts me when I go travelling and makes my life a misery’ (chapter 4). He is always looking for it and packing and unpacking it when he’s preparing for a journey. On this occasion, he does find it, but he has to unpack everything again to do so.
Jerome, then, comes across as rather absent-minded and forgetful in his packing. George and Harris are even worse. They pack the hamper after Jerome has finished packing the other things, and they make a mess while doing so. They manage to sprinkle salt over everything, butter gets smeared everywhere, tomatoes get squashed, and so on. To make matters worse, Montmorency, Jerome’s very badly-behaved terrier, gets involved. George and Harris reveal themselves to be haphazard, indeed quite chaotic in their packing.
As so often in this book, the packing scenes are used to great comic effect. We get a picture of the three men as blundering, albeit well-intentioned types, always getting in each other’s way and unable to complete any task in an orderly fashion.
In the story 'packing for the journey' by Jerome k Jerome, the narrator is proud of his packing skills. While he is planning for the trip with his friends' Harris and George he proposes for packing things, to which they agreed readily. George and Harris sat and kept watching Jerome packing. jerome was frustrated for they sitting idle, he was just wanted to be in charge of packing and direct his friends about packing. While Jerome packed the things, Harris pointed out things that he forgot to put. He would unpack things again and would search for things if not forgotten. This was repeated again and again. Jerome becomes so exhausted that he packed his spectacles inside the bag and opened the bag again. At last, the packing was finished by 10.05 PM. Now it was Harris and George's turn to pack food hampers.
They tried showing that they were better than Jerome in packing however it turned out to be a blunder. Their packing resulted in breaking a cup, squashing a tomato and George stepping over butter. Now seeing Jerome sit irritated them. In addition to this commotion, enters their dog Montmorency. The dog had the only aim in life to get scolded and create hurdles in life. As the things were readily packed he came in the room and st on them. The dog disorganizes the teaspoons and put his legs into the jam bottle. After these lot of troubles and obstacles finally, the packing was finished by 12.50 pm. George concludes that if anything would be found broken in a bag it would be because it was broken already.