That's what HE said.

   Yeah, the guy who I paid last summer to trim the maple tree in our yard that overhangs the road. Like a lot of old maples, it somehow evolved into having about seven trunks and a lot of dead branches among them. I hate to think of what could happen if a dead branch fell onto the road and caused an accident. So Tree Service was to make sure that didn't happen'
    "We're done," he said, waiting to be paid. I asked what about that high branch over the road side, looking dead and as if it's waiting to fall.
      "Oh that's not dead, "said he.  "That's a live branch and won't fall off."

  Friday there was wind.   These branches did not fall where they lie. A motorist moved them out of the road onto the lawn. I don't suppose he was from Tree Service.