See I find that so terribly odd. My parents locked the doors of the house & the cars my whole life. And I do too. I don't know how anyone could feel safe just leaving their door unlocked where just anyone could've walked in. Even back then.
I get your point. But I grew up in small town USA. We did not lock our doors during the day if at home. At night, locked. Now is different. If I am home, door is locked. If I am out sitting on my deck, front door locked. I always lock my car too.
We did too Marie. And it was always the people who left everything unlocked that got robbed. LOL
Why not? Why not lock your doors? What is so difficult about door locking? What was the point of Not locking doors? Hard to remember to carry your keys? Afraid of being locked out?
The reason we didn't lock doors in the good old days is because there wasn't the threat that there is now. It's just something you never thought of. I used to ride a bike to high school. Hundreds of bikes in the parking lot. No one locked their bike and no bikes got stolen. It was a different time of life. Nowadays you have to lock up your bike and even then they will steal them because they have cutters that can cut the cable. I have had four bikes stolen at my apartment. Now I take the front wheel off and lock it as well. They won't steal a bike they can't ride. So what do they do? They slash the seat in frustration. Steal a car? Unheard of. Now they hijack cars and your life is in danger. They get arrested now, and are out on the street the next day on probation and then they are arrested again for breaking probation. The jails are revolving doors.
Exactly the same for me. I also have a monitored home alarm system and five security cameras.
I'm with you on the second section, but not the first. In the areas where I lived, dropping in unannounced was always considered to be bad form.Remember when people just showed up/dropped in for a visit, without calling? Heck, I used to do it and plenty did it to me. "Just stopped by to see how you're doin' "There was a time when it was very common. Sometimes people would show up with their entire family. It was rare for anyone to say "We can't have company right now, we're getting ready to eat dinner". My parents often took us to visit people without calling, and people (usually relatives) did the same to us.
Things changed......now I would be very displeased. No excuse for not calling or texting in advance! People might be in the bathroom, eating dinner, in the middle of a disagreement, asleep, 'busy', getting ready to go out, ......whatever. It's very poor manners to just "show up".
Doors were locked when we were out. Only unlocked during the day when we were at home. Again, I grew up in a very small town
