One of my few court experiences involved a civil suit that was heard by a judge rather than a jury (at the mutual agreement of the parties). The trial was a long drawn out affair over a number of months since trying to accommodate the schedule of numerous witnesses and the judge was difficult. Unfortunately, I was in court throughout the trial.
I was convinced the judge slept through the vast majority of the testimony. He would turn his chair 90 degrees to the bench and put his head down---and not move! Clearly he was off in dream land---or so I thought--until he rendered his decision----that judge wasn't sleeping. It was obvious that he had heard every word
Moral of the story--it ain't always what you think it is---or what someone else leads you to believe it is.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis