I don't lock my door when we're at home either. Not until I go to sleep. And I live in a suburban street surrounded by ghetto.

Huh.

I'm making holiday cookies following the ATK recipe. But I have no jam to make sandwiches. So, instead, I just boiled and sugared down some frozen apricots and I'll use that instead. this is for the stay-at-home mom group cookie exchange so no matter what I do it will be a fail.

So friend didn't get the arts job. But she's psyched for pursuing similar and is looking into writing a state bill for child mental health. So, that's good. She's written bills before and gotten them passed.

Great. Now I can't remember if I locked my front door before we left Wisconsin.

Need to text the person picking up my mail to make sure that's done tomorrow.

I totally lock my door when I'm home. I walk in and lock the deadbolt before I even take off my shoes and outside pants.

There was a horrible incident at the dorm I was an RA for and I'll never ever forget it. Then, about 6 years ago, a woman in my apt. complex got raped. The guy just walked in to her unlocked apartment in the early evening. I was living a very safe, residential, suburban neighborhood.

Always lock doors, people.

Needless to say, I always lock the doors when the kids and I are inside. This stems more from keeping them in than keeping intruders out, but I do it without thinking.

It's leaving the doors unlocked when we go that I need to work on.

I did once have a drunk woman walk into my unlocked apartment in Columbus. That could have easily ended badly. But that is where I learned to lock them when inside.

I'm not even sure what key on my key ring is for the front door. I'm not sure I have a key for the back door.

Always lock doors, people.

Yeah.

A friend of mine was at home with her boyfriend and two guys walked in through their unlocked sliding-glass door in back. Raped her at knifepoint.

Don't presume the human race is good. You don't have to presume they're evil either. Just...don't depend on an unlocked door.

Now I have to go check my lock (even though one lock is always engaged and I'm in the habit of throwing the deadbolt when I come in).

The cabin I stay in each summer doesn't have any really effective way to lock it.

Always lock doors, people.

One of the many reasons I describe a certain ex-housemate of mine as crazy is because she thought CLOSING the front door was silly and pedestrian. And locking it - please, how boring and mundane could one be, daaaarling? Yes, I wanted to kill her.

Oh, tommyrot, feel better.

And yes, lock door. The only reason I sometimes don't do it is that 1. my country has ridiculous low crime percentage (compare to U.S.), 2. My building has intercom system and a locked front door, 3. I still lock it 90% of the times. It just takes one time, and I don't wanna hear that time happening to any of you Buffistas. It's not about feeling safe: I feel safe with unlocked door, I grew up in a boarding school where all doors were open 24/7. It's about not being stupid, and not takes chances that the person to knock on the door will be a freaking care bear. The good people will understand if they'll have to wait 15 more seconds until you unlock the door to let them in.

Then again, humans almost always terrified/disappointed me.