A series of bad choices led to Shane being in hot water.
Shane had been down at the barn. He sulked back up and told me he was in trouble. I asked why and he told me he'd accidentally dropped a belvita pack in Sam's stall. Sam tried to eat it and Carrie got headbutted by him trying to get it back.
The story changed when Carrie came in. There was no accident. One of the boarders had seen Shane dangling the pack in Sams' stall and teasing him with it. Sam knocked it out of his hand which started the chain of events.
First, horses can't eat just anything. Sam may or may not have tried to eat the plastic pack, but out of all our horses he's the one most likely to do it. If Sam ate the pack it could have been nothing, but it could have been a serious (and seriously expensive) vet call. Carrie ran into the stall to get it from him which startled him. She got headbutted by a large horse head getting the pack back.
Second, Shane lied. He lied to Carrie at the barn and to me at the house. Carrie was already suspicious, because with the gate Sam can't reach out of his stall. So how did the pack roll into the stall? The boarder told Carrie what she saw.
Which leads to point three: Shane did this in front of our boarders. They pay to have their horses taken care of. Carrie's wants to do a good job and wants boarders to feel like their horses are in good hands.
So Shane got a serious talking to when Carrie came back to the house furious and with a headache (which she sported the rest of the day).
No Minecraft for a week. Not the game. Not videos about it. Nothing. Shane was off electronics for Sunday, too.
In the end, Shane was off Minecraft for two full weeks. Shane has a habit of pushing Carrie's buttons at the wrong time. Multiple times, he boldly pressed on either ignorant or uncaring of all the warning signs until she added days here and there.
With anything, the goal is that Shane learns. There's a number of things he could learn here from horse care to honesty to reading warning signs he's pushing too far and someone else isn't appreciating whatever it is he's doing. All good lessons. I pray he learns them all!
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