"The best time to harvest is when the owner is not around."

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After our early morning walk today, my wife had to go to her mother's house to fill in for an hour to the caregiver who asked permission to be late this morning so I went alone on my usual route of passing by the seaside. On my way, I passed by the bakery to buy some bread before proceeding to the seaside. As I was driving, I turned on the radio which I usually do to listen to the early program which talked about planting and agriculture. One of the program hosts uttered the statement which I'm using here as the Discussion title. Hearing it, I was so amused and was laughing by myself inside the car. I thought the statement had some truth to it LOL! I was reminded of our neighbor whose late husband had invested part of his retirement pay to plant a hectare of land to mangoes. After a few years, the mango trees started bearing fruit and the couple were happy to reap the fruits of their investment only to find out that the fruits to be harvested have been greatly reduced in number as some young men in the vicinity,who might have been in collusion with the caretaker, had beaten them to the buzzer in harvesting the mango fruits. Same thing also happens to coconut planters who often find out that their harvest is greatly reduced because some of the fruits of the coconut trees are stolen while they were still younger to be sold for the buco juice. Indeed, the best time to harvest is when the owners are not around hahaha!