Just because you saw it doesn't mean you saw it right.

     In this family everyone likes to work in the yard, but I'm the one that cuts mama and daddy's yard, but every now and then she gets the time to cut it.  I'm very particular about the way a yard should be cut, but I'm a nice daughter and let her do it when she wants, even though she cuts it wrong. We have an electric fence around their house that keeps the horses out of the yard, most of the time, and instead of getting off the mower and opening the gate she lifts the fence up and  goes under it (yes it's unplugged). When she does this it usually pulls it out and it falls down. Daddy got tired of having to fix the fence every time this happened, so it left the fence down and turned the horses out with the cows. She of course didn't like this, and neither did I, because you had to get off the mower and move the wire where you could cut underneath it. Finally this fall he gave in and fixed the fence, it just so happened that she decided to cut the yard that day.
     We were working at the shop and I noticed that she had stopped cutting the yard and had got off the mower in about the same spot that she always knocks the fence down. Daddy noticed it the same time I did and said. "go see if she's knocked the fence down." I started walking down there and asked her if she'd knock it down, of course she started laughing hysterically and said, "no go away, go back to work". Well that pretty well told the story for her, daddy hears her laughing and gets on the tractor, with the hay mower hooked to it, and is driving down there to chew her out about it. While she is yelling at him to get out of the yard because he's making tracks in it, he runs under the phone line and power line and hangs them both. He's mad at her because she's mad at him and she's mad at him because the yard is messed up and I'm just trying to get him to stop before he jerks the wires off the house.  He stops but when he goes to lower the mower it jerks the wires down, but miraculously  they're still attached to the house. Later on that night they figure out the phone isn't working, and of course we all think it's because daddy hung the wires today, he of course didn't think he messed anything up. The next day she called AT&T and told them that someone had went through the yard and hung the phone line with "a piece of equipment". For some reason daddy didn't see the humor in that like we did, but they came out and tried to fix it. The phone started working while the service man was there but he never could find the problem. This went on for a couple of weeks, it would work and then quit, but they never could find the problem. So today when they came out mama and I were starting to doubt that he had caused the problem and he was convinced that he had created the problem. The poor guy worked for half a day checking everything and come to find out a mouse had made a nest in their box about a mile down the road and was chewing the wires in two. Daddy is still gloating about how he told her he had done nothing to the phone line but she had torn up the fence for the 5th time this year. He of course will go fix the fence again and her privileges of cutting the yard have been "cut off".
     So even when you see something happen, and you know for a fact that's how it is you could be wrong.  In one accident there can be a thousand point of views and not one of them be right. So take the time to keep your mouth shut instead of pointing fingers, it could come back to bite you. And never doubt your daddy because daddy's are never wrong :).