Honesty is the best policy/The lawnmower.

I had something similar happen to me in my teenage years.

I had started working summers for a man in construction and it was my second week in at the ripe old age of 14. I made a really stupid mistake. We had framed out an existing pole barn and put siding on it only to figure out that we had to put in a few more 2X4's so that the plywood wall on the inside of this stable would be to the boss' liking. He was a very particular man so far as those things go, so i thought. Anywho. I'm nailing in these 2x4's and not thinking about whats behind it, I managed to shoot one straight through the siding.

So I looked at the man cutting boards, and I said "Mike, I just shot a nail through the siding." He told me not to tell the boss and maybe he wouldn't notice. So I sat on that for five minutes knowing what I should do. So I went over to the boss and said "Jeff, I did something really stupid. I shot a nail through the siding." He said "That's alright, you can redo it. We have enough material." So I hung the siding with Jeff helping me and we got to be pretty good friends that day. So far as a 14 year old and a 43 year old man go.

Two years later, I'm in a play at the high school. (Yeah, Yeah, think what you like. I was good at it. Won a few awards in the state for it.) So it got time to meeting the family and her Mother's Boyfriend at the time was none other than my boss, Jeff.



Eventually her mother and Jeff got married, and Me and her got married. I'm a co-owner st the aforementioned construction company and to this day I and everyone else at the company hear about how I put a nail through the siding from the backside in a pole barn. Strictly as a precautionary tale of course /Sarcasm. Everyone and their brother laughs about it.