"Am I not the only one who's constantly going back and forth in and out of the house? Even to do things like garden, get the mail, walk across the street, take the dog for a walk, all that stuff. Sometimes it's just easier to walk back and forth.
Also sometimes I need to have a friend go over to my house to get something, would never have that option if I was constantly locking my door. I've locked myself out of my car and had to call my friends to get my spare 2 times since I've been living on my own. That means leaving my door unlocked has saved me 120 bucks in locksmith money.
Also when you lock something, you give the impression that there's something valuable inside. If someone breaks into your house, and sees a locked briefcase, and right next to it, an open briefcase with 100 dollar bills in the pockets, guess which one he's going to take?
I dunno I think you guys are kinda paranoid about the world."
I think you misunderstand (either that or I have) - A doesn't represent THE ONLY TIME THIS DOOR COULD EVER BE UNLOCKED IS WHEN I AM PERSONALLY IN THE ACT OF OPENING OR CLOSING IT. I'll happily leave it open for a few minutes when I go check my mail or go to the shop across the street or whatever, but I'm not gonna leave it open all the time, that's just careless unless you live in an area of zero crime. Which I don't. I refer back to my previous story where a crazy guy interrupted my dinner claiming people were gonna die tonight and wouldn't go away until the police arrived and took him away.
As far as the car thing goes, I'm confused - you get your friends to go into your house and get your car keys for you? How could you not have done that yourself? Surely your car is either near your house in which case you can easily go back and get the keys yourself, or it's far away in which case you must have had the keys to have driven it there. Can you elaborate?
As far as the locked thing goes, without meaning to sound like a snob maybe I have things of value behind the locked door of my house. More importantly, unless I had literally nothing worth stealing, I seriously doubt the would-be burglar is going to go into my house, go "oh, he let me in, he must want me to take his tvs, computer, dvd player and the like because there's something of more value hidden behind a locked door - maybe I'll break into the neighbours across the corridor at much greater risk, 'cause they bothered to lock their door so they must have more stuff to hide".
Taking care that your stuff can't be easily taken at no great inconvenience (seriously, does your house have a heavy iron-bar that barricades it or something? turning a key in a lock takes 5 seconds, and from the inside turning a latch takes less than a second) isn't being "paranoid about the world", it's just common sense.
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James - Board 8's Resident Warm And Safe, Slipper-Wearing User
& The Cream of Porcupine Tree Fanboyism