Glass Panes are a Pain

Glass is beautiful and allows light to enter homes. It is also fragile. The replacement of a glass pane requires both care and dexterity. I am highly skilled with a sledge hammer. Our current home had eleven (11) cracked window panes when we took possession. We decided to spend the cash to have a friend do them all, to prevent a million dollar heating bill that winter. Luckily, since then I have had to replace only a few. Once a garage door pane fell out and shattered. I bought glass, got home and snapped it taking it out of the kraft paper. So, when I returned to the hardware store, I bought two. Now I have an extra, but don't recall where I put it!  My worst experience occurred when we owned our house, but the renters still had 6 months on their lease. One day the mom of the family called to say her youngest daughter forgot her key and broke in the basement door. She requested I instruct the teen on how to replace the pane, to "teach her a lesson". I almost told her that I barely knew how myself!  In the photo below the offending culprit is the one closest to the doorknob.

Pretty panes cause pain