Maybe I have watched too much news/tv,newspapers, over the years, but I lock my doors
all the time, and It's because of all the drug problems, as I don't trust any of them, they
are prowling around 24 hours a day, , looking for money for their drugs, it's
not like being afraid of bogey men, other scary things, these people are real, and desperate, and they would robb their own mothers to get what they 'need', well folks,
they can try my door, it'll be locked, so they can go next door, maybe their's is open.
The newspapers list all of the break ins, and there is always a pretty good list of streets that have been vandalized, so it seems kind of 'dumb' for me to leave my door unlocked and make it real convenient for them.
Drug addicts get up every day, and go to work robbing others, just like we go to work to
earn our daily bread. I would as soon put a bullet between their eyes as look at them,
so, they are 'not' coming into my house.
Someone walked into my next door neighbours house one night, and took all of his electronic equipment, out the back slider, and they were gone.
I was right next door, doing, whatever, never heard a thing, but my door was locked.
I am not afraid, but I am 'aware', and it is no different for me to be in my house with a locked door, or unlocked door, I don't walk around in fear, I just feel more secure.
I have a big chocolate lab too, and he is a good deterent, and people who case
neighbourhoods, usually know where the dogs are, and would sooner bother someone
without a dog.
My daughters never lock their doors, I don't really understand that, they work hard for what they have, buy nice things, then leave their houses open for any 'scum bag' that might decide to walk off with everything.
The real sickheads, like the guy on the bus, or the shooter of the swimmers, no one can
predict when those kinds will surface, they are random and wierd and far between,
no one can stop them.
