The owner of a nice home where he and his family lived received a text from his neighbor down the street informing him that his large dog had got out and went and crapped all over the owner of the home lawn. The owner of the home looked out the window and could see indeed large piles of dog crap on his lawn.
The owner never told anyone else in the house about the ongoing issue in the yard because he didn’t want to panic them. Instead he encouraged them to go out into the yard and enjoy themselves. So, as the family walked through the piles of dog crap in the yard and tracked it back into house. After seeing the dog crap was being tracked into the home, stopped anyone else from coming into the home. The owner became very upset at the neighbor and blamed him for all the crap that was now on the shoes of his family all over the floors of his home leaving a terrible stench.
One of the owner’s sons whose shoes was contaminated by the dog crap asked his father when did he learn of the crap on the yard? The father said he knew a while go and knew it was bad, so he didn’t tell the rest of the family as he didn’t want to panic them. The homeowner’s son replied to his father, “Dad if you had only let us know before we went outside, we could have contained it and got it up so no one would step in it and track it into the house. The father replied, remember I didn’t let everybody back into the home. It’s the neighbors’ fault, not mine.
Does this story have a parallel?