Or your notice of default may be the parade of things undone and words unsaid that march across your bedroom ceiling in the dark small hours when you cannot sleep and you lie staring, hardly breathing, wondering, "Why didn't I, why didn't I...".
"Every precaution is to be taken by the police to prevent any disorder that may result from the parade of the Ku Klux Klan in this city on Saturday," it read.
What "The Intouchables" does cannot exactly be called grappling, and its genial parade of stereotypes may be more regressive than liberating.
(For different reasons, Mohsen Makhmalbaf's as-yet-unreleased new film Kandahar - about the Afghan town now thought to be America's target number one - may yet join the grim parade of footnotes).
One may chuckle at the stately parade of obsolete cigarette brands smoked on screen; the ominous shift from a card game for two players, to bataille, for three, portending marital conflict ahead; or the screaming obviousness of a bright scarlet Olivetti Valentine typewriter among the final shots (a moment I loved).
America's favorite dad may be right that his parade of sexual accusers is out to gouge a star.
Grant Hill may have been flattered by the parade of teams that flew to Detroit this week to attempt a courtship, but he was not swayed.
That's the institution, you may not recall, that employed a parade of disturbing choirmasters with names like Wagner, Debussy, Stravinsky and Cage.
Eventually, a parade of would-be borrowers may show up at his door.
After watching the film, whose title describes the average duration of a parade of runway models, you may agree.
