locking doors

[KathyK]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "marl2580" <marley2580 at b...> 
wrote:
> As an aside comment to the whole Moor debate (a topic about 
> which I am very opinionated, living as I do within an hour's drive 
> from Dunblane, but don't wish to inflame the topic even more) I 
> don't lock my doors very often. I found it really funny how Moor 
> was really surprised that no one locked their doors, yet all the 
> houses he tried were occupied at the time. I know of no one who 
> locks their door when they are actually in their house (except 
> perhaps last thing at night) and I live in a city. The only time I 
ever 
> lock my doors is last thing at night and when I go out for any 
> length of time. I don't even have a yale lock so anyone could just 
> walk in, but the point is that they don't. Do people in America 
> actually lock their doors when they're still in their house?
> 
> Marley

Hi all, this is my first post to the OT list:

I live in a town of less than 30,000 people in Connecticut.  I grew 
up here (Hopefully, I will be getting out soon but that's another 
story).  It's an incredibly safe place to live.  We don't have much 
in the way of crime.  Our police news consists mainly of traffic 
violations and underage drinking.  There has been one murder here in 
my lifetime and it was a family dispute.  
However, we do have a couple prisons across from an elementary school 
(that just cracks me up--I'm an idiot, I know).  
I lock the doors of my apartment and my car at all times, home or not 
home.  Most people here do the same thing.  They gotta keep their 
pretty stuff safe.  
I know of one person only who does NOT lock his doors.  And he NEVER 
locks them.  That's my uncle.  I don't even think he or anyone else 
in his family could locate a house key if you asked him to.  I know 
he's never given me keys when I dog sit.  It proved to be a problem 
one day when I locked myself out of the house with the dog barking 
madly inside.  
Anyway, my uncle is fearless.  He was a police officer in town for 
over 20 years.  He knows there's nothing that he needs to lock his 
house up for.  My uncle is very rare, though.  Even his wife locks 
herself in at night when she's alone.

Okay I wrote way too much, 
KathyK (wishing she was fearless)