From the minute he wakes up and gets out of bed Alexander can tell this is a terrible, horrible, very bad day. Everything is going wrong. He has gum in his hair and no prize in his cereal box. He forgets the number sixteen when he counts and finds he has a cavity at the dentist's office. His best friend now counts him as his third best friend and there is no dessert in his lunchbox. Things don't get any better when they go to pick up his father from work. You know, maybe he'll just move to Australia.