The terrible consequence of being caught in the garage would have been my saying, “You know you’re not allowed in the garage, dingbat. Now go put your laundry away already.” I can’t understand why they all try to lie and sneak so much, because we rarely do anything to them unless someone gets hurt or there’s major property damage.
“Terrible consequence” He-heh.
Yeah. Not so bad, but who knows how that plays in the theater of his little mind? Takes some investigation to find out whether he was really entertaining some fear about coming in through the door into the house, or just out there diddling around killing time.