Maura's Illuminated Manuscript

> W: It was an accident! They just happened.

Do you know any pilots, pro or amateur? See if one of them will talk to him about how there are no such thing as accidents. I immediately think of pilots, because whenever there is an "accident", the NTSB investigation almost always traces it back to not just one, but a series of mistakes or negligent inactions by people who were otherwise responsible.

In this case, he did at least three things wrong that I can immediately identify.

1. He put his phone down somewhere it did not belong. (Mistake.)
   
2. Later (perhaps not much later), he put a towel down somewhere (Presumably mistake, since it probably needs to get hung up.) without looking at where he was putting it. (Neglect.)

Another parental lecture is probably not going to solve the problem, but one can hope that getting him to see it this way will get him thinking about it. Assuming he doesn't spend the whole time arguing with you about it, like my daughter does.