Took me a while to sort out, but the tag helped. Nice way of talking all around it but still getting the point and the idiom and a fair amount of tragedy across.

In harms way? Like the note-to-self theme.

This:

Reminder, there’s a note on the fridge reminding you to read you calendar which reminds you to read your daily quotes.

This could all go very wrong, and does for some people.

Truly tragic indeed. It’s a trainwreck and it keeps snowballing. :)