Daniel Jenkins and his wife Mary were always arguing, each trying to be unselfish and so make the other look bad. 

When their retired policeman father who lived with them decided he wanted to go back to work as a traffic policeman and move out of their home they were not happy, worried that the neighbors would think badly of them. Father decides he is going to take up the offer of the job anyway as he feels he still has a lot to give to the force and he hopes his son and daughter-in-law will get along better without him in their home. 

When the jewelry shop where Daniel works is held up by an armed robber and his father is the policeman that attends, Daniel learns that his father is a better than average policeman and he finally takes some advice from his father.