Do you feel like you need to place blame when things don't work properly?

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They call this scape goating. Or something like that. When an item comes up missing, do you immediately jump to conclusions that whoever was around it most recently had to be a thief and do you tend to be the judge, jury and executioner? I am guilty of this at times. Yes. I am not a saint. I sometimes have been known to place blame on someone when for instance the car was taken to the mechanics shop to get work done and soon after that something comes up broke and I figure it was the mechanic's fault that he must have tampered with it or maybe just got careless. I have even blamed the meteorologist on television for saying it was going to rain and not cut the grass, only to say that it was the man's fault on the news who lied about saying it was supposed to storm and I wasted a perfect day by not mowing the grass after the fact. Have you ever thought that trying to scape goat some body for a thing that went awry or just because you felt like pointing the fickle finger of blame on someone just because they happened to be around at the time? It is a bad habit and habits, especially some bad ones, are the hardest to break. I admit I need to work on this. I realize it is not only unfair to place blame where it is not due on innocent people but it is so easy to point fingers rather than perhaps just accepting that sometimes things go wrong for no rhyme nor reason but they just do.