If you’ve watched dateline where they investigate a small town murder, you always hear people say “we don’t even lock our doors.”, Here’s a hint. Lock your doors. I mean right now, go and lock your doors.
It just seems crazy to me that, time after time, you hear people say “nothing like this happens in this town.” Guess what? There’s enough happening in every small town that dateline, 48 hours, 20/20 can take their pick of the murders to report.
Seriously, I think if someone were breaking into cars that only had red paint, I would make sure my car was blue. If I had a killer in my town I would move! If you have glass on either side of your doors – your house is not safe even if you do lock your door. That’s why I have a plate of steel behind the stained glass on both sides of my doors.
Then all the cops would have to look for is the guy with the broken hand. True, there may be a lot of guys with broken hands in my town, but only one with a jacked up hand and stained glass all over it. seriously though, knuckleheads, lock your doors.
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Funny story about that … we DO lock our doors at night, but not so much during the daytime when we are in and out multiple times in a day. One day last year, a strange man walked in the front door … I was struggling to get a sound to come out of my mouth, and my granddaughter’s eyes were popping out of her head, while the man stood there, looked around, looked at me and said, “You’re not my daughter.” Nope, I’m older than he was, likely, and it turned out he just had the wrong door. This is a row of attached townhomes that all look exactly alike, so it’s an easy mistake to make. My cat used to often get the wrong house! But seriously, yes, we should keep our doors locked and take reasonable precautions, but y’know … we cannot live in fear, either, for doing so keeps us from living life.
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Funny story, Jill! I agree that we can’t live our lives in fear. Great point.
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It’s a nice idea not to lock your doors. And maybe the folk in your town are all nice. That doesn’t stop nosey critters looking for snacks or a cosy lie down from ambling in.
OK in the UK it’s usually one of the neighbour cats, but, say, in rural USA how do you convince a large brown bear you’d like to use the sofa? Or do you just offer them a coffee and biscuits?
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