I came along someone familiar who was trying to close an old wooden gate . I helped him close the gate , and it had a couple of locking mechanisms , mostly just post / hole types . We got about a step away from the gate when there was an unhappy noise and the thud of something falling to the ground . We looked back and 1/2 of the timbers had crumbled off and one of the post / hole sections had fallen as well .
Why did the gate probably break ?
A. It was old
B. None of the above choices .
C. It was hard to close
D. I helped close it


A