Do you lock up your house?

Funnily enough I leave my stuff on the beach, too

Nah Laurel I meant to say that this was at a bar on the beach so it was pretty much entirely my fault for leaving my things unattended around drunk people.

so what do u guyz do when u find out the call is coming from inside the house????

I don't answer the phone to begin with.

sometimes I say Lucy I'm Home when I walk into a apts. w/ open doors

I've been way more casual about leaving doors open when I've lived in small towns/rural areas,

small towns/rural areas have their share of crazy drunks and meth heads, esp. poor towns. those guys can actually be scarier because there are fewer eyes on the street.

The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

There are parts of rural NC that I find scarier than parts of Chicago, but without focusing on notable exceptions, I would be more likely to lock my doors (while at home or while away) in the city than in rural or suburban areas.

My front door locks when you shut it, which is a pain in the ass. At my previous apartment, I did not lock it while at home, and very often not while I was asleep, but almost always when I was away. Except when I was running and didn't want to carry a key.

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Someone's casing the joint of one voter.

the 3 ppl i live w/ are all incessant door lockers. totally annoying when i come home and they're sitting a metre away from the door watching the tv and i have to drop everything and find the key and unlock it. this happens basically nightly.

xp they better not keep their CDs in binders, ffs!

do u rob them when they are at an italian restaurant or a mexican one?

when they're at a taco truck, of course.

but then they will rush home to use the bathroom

no, they shit themselves at the restaurant after they saw this guy's bottle opener

no, they will be in a state of ecstasy conferred by the magical quality of food prepared from a vehicle that they will be in no rush to go home. They might also be wasted.

oh, so they will die in dui crash, so they don't need their stuff anymore

probably the fault of someone not checking their blind spot

Uh if we close the door, it's closed. So no way to get back in if you don't have a key.
But in the back it's completely open. The door is even open most of the time. Unsafe?
I guess but all in all you'd have to climb over the neighbour's gardenwall to get in and that's pretty difficult considering the neighbourhood we live in. Also, if we lose or forget our key, we can just ask the neighbour to climb over the wall.

There are many times I've been tempted to hop in and park the car on the other side of the lot to teach them a much needed lesson.

I see cars outside my post office running for nearly 20 minutes, and I feel the same way.

I work in an area with a shoplifting problem and no wonder! People will leave bags open and unattended ALL THE TIME.

didn't see this poll, but i would have doubled the no vote

I see cars outside my post office running for nearly 20 minutes, and I feel the same way.

I'd just take the keys and throw them away.

I missed this poll, or there'd be two NO votes. We don't even have keys for our house.