In reality, in the case of an accident in polite company, most people would just say "the glass broke" since who broke it is irrelevant. In a supermarket where

In reality, in the case of an accident in polite company, most people would just say "the glass broke" since who broke it is irrelevant. In a supermarket where I dropped a jar of pasta sauce, I said "the jar broke". Me breaking it was not important, since I wasn't going to pay for it.