[
 {
  "chunk": 5,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The butcher Pooter did not engage abuses him in front of the neighbours and threatens to sue over the scraper; Pooter blames Carrie; a decorator who cannot match the stair paint talks him into repainting the whole staircase.",
  "predicament": "A tradesman whose custom was refused abuses a householder in front of the neighbours, and another talks him into a costlier job."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 6,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Pooter rebukes three late junior clerks, and Pitt, seventeen and six weeks in the firm, tells him to keep his hair on and that after twenty years he looks it; next morning a quarrel with the grocer's boy makes Pooter miss his bus.",
  "predicament": "A long-serving senior rebukes younger colleagues for lateness and is answered with open cheek by the newest of them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 7,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Pooter is late for the first time in his career on the one morning the principal checks, the others having been tipped off; a senior clerk saves him, Pitt jeers audibly at late head clerks, and Pooter's silent look only makes the juniors laugh; the ironmonger has holed the gas-pipe.",
  "predicament": "A punctual senior is caught late on the one morning the employer checks, and the younger colleagues he scolded mock him openly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 8,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Gowing gives Pooter a strong cigar that makes him ill, which he hides; when Gowing complains of dry rot Pooter tells him he is talking dry rot himself, and laughs at his own joke half the night.",
  "predicament": "A man makes a small joke at an old friend's expense and is so delighted with it that he laughs half the night."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 9,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Pooter calls Carrie from her housework to hear a pun about 'boarders' and she tells him it is not worth interrupting her for; Gowing finds fault with the banisters; on Sunday Cummings and Gowing bring along a friend, Stillbrook, for a walk ending at a public house.",
  "predicament": "A husband calls his busy wife away to hear a pun and she tells him plainly it was not worth her time."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 10,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "At the inn gate Pooter honestly gives his home district and is refused as not a bona-fide traveller, while his friends lie and are admitted; they leave him waiting outside for nearly an hour, and he walks home in silence and says nothing to Carrie.",
  "predicament": "A man's friends lie their way in where he has been turned away, and leave him waiting outside for an hour."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 11,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Pooter drafts and tears up letters of reproach, then receives a sharp letter from Cummings demanding an explanation of Pooter's conduct; his carefully worded reply amounts to an apology, and his friends take it as one.",
  "predicament": "A man slighted by his old friends ends up apologising to them himself, while telling himself he has generously forgiven them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 12,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Declining Cummings' offer of his cousin's whisky, Pooter claims his cellar is full, at which moment the servant brings in a cheap bottle from the grocer wrapped in newspaper and offers to fetch sherry at one-and-three.",
  "predicament": "A man who claims a well-stocked cellar to refuse an old friend's offer is exposed when a servant brings in cheap drink."
 }
]