Dad – ”Son, come in here, we need to talk.” Son – ”What’s up, Dad?”Dad – ”There’s a scratch down the side of the car. Did you do it?”Son – ”I don’t believe, if I understand the definition of a ‘scratch the car, that I can say, truthfully, that I scratched the car.” Dad – ”Well, it wasn’t there yesterday, and you drove the car last night, and no one has driven it since. How can you explain the scratch?”Son – ”Well, as I’ve said before, I have no recollection of scratching the car. While it is true that I did take the car out last night, I did not scratch it.”Dad – ”But your sister, Monica, has told me she saw you back the car against the mailbox at the end of the driveway, heard a loud scraping sound, saw you get out to examine the car, and then drive away. So again I’ll ask you, yes or no, did you scratch the car?”Son – ”Oh, you mean you think you have evidence to prove I scratched it. Well, you see, I understood you to mean did ”I” scratch the car. I stand by my earlier statement, that I did not scratch the car.”Dad – ”Are you trying to tell me you didn’t drive the car into the mailbox?”Son – ”Well, you see sir, I was trying to drive the car into the street. I mishandled the steering of the car, and it resulted in direct contact with the mailbox, though that was clearly not my intent.”Dad- ”So you are saying that you did hit the mailbox?”Son – ”No sir, that’s not my statement. I’ll refer you back to my original statement that I did not scratch the car.”Dad – ”But the car did hit the mailbox and the car did get scratched as a result of this contact?”Son – ”Well yes, I suppose you could look at it that way.”Dad – ”So you lied to me when you said you did not scratch the car?”Son – ”No! No, that’s not correct. Your question was ”Did I scratch the car?” From a strict legal definition, as I understood the meaning of that sentence, I did not scratch the car…the mailbox did…I was merely present when the scratching occurred. So my answer of ”No” when you asked ”Did I scratch the car” was legally correct, although I did not volunteer information.”Dad – ”Where did you learn to talk like a complete idiot?”Son – ”From the President of the United States.”