I wouldn’t argue you out of wearing a PFD while boating, I was mainly surprised that someone would present wearing one as a given. I know most people argue that solo boating is a no-no, but I love kayaking solo although I recognize the risk.
No, no philosophical stance here. I usually walk in with my hands full, or just don’t think of it. I couldn’t care less if others lock their door- why would I? I do think it’s sad, from my POV, those who lock and alarm themselves always and have such fear of the outside.
I do lock it at night, because I am more vulnerable when I’m asleep.
Error: Land of 10,000 Lakes.
In my experience, if insurers demand anything, it’s a deadbolt, which generally do not lock automatically.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I know anyone with a lock that only locks automatically. There are locks that can be set that way, but if you twist a thingie on the inside part of the lock, the door stays unlocked until you twist it back, or until you use a key to lock it.
I’m not encouraging people not to lock their doors. I do think some of them are overestimating the risk they’re in. But lock away!
Haven’t you ever had to work and save to have things worth protecting?
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Ummmm…yes.
Now. I haven’t always. And I’ve never locked the door before going to bed.
Fair enough.
I don’t care whether people lock or not. I do find it amusing that some of the lockers are amazed that some of us don’t lock.
We lock our front door unless we’re in the kitchen, since there is a good chance we wouldn’t hear someone. We usually leave one of our many back doors open for the dog, but we have a locked gate and a high fence, so that is pretty safe. We also have a heavy screen door with good locks, so in good weather we leave the front door open and that one closed. We lock up at night.
Yep.
It’s the unlocked door that gets walked into freely. If somebody’s going to murder me in my own home, they’re at least going to have to break in to do it.
I do. I lock all doors and windows. We only dead bolt at night. If I am home alone and taking a nap I even lock my bedroom door.
Paranoid? Who me?
Hmmm…I’m familiar with McCarthy, AL, but, I’m afraid I don’t know Fuckall…
More anecdata:
City of 135,000 in one of Canada’s poorest regions. My doors are rarely/never locked. Most of the ground floor windows don’t have functioning locks either.
I sincerely wonder how many robberies involve people randomly trying a bunch of door handles before finding one unlocked, and entering without doing any recon beforehand.
This isn’t some odd sex question, is it?
Normally, I have the front and back doors locked.
On the other hand, my in-laws have rarely locked the front door when they’re home, and my wife often leaves the front door unlocked when she’s expecting a visitor or awaiting my return from work.
We live in a nice but hardly crime-free section of Austin, TX.
This has been such a common refrain, I am wondering: did any of the people saying already that they do not lock fail to mention having dogs? That is, in retrospect I think I would rephrase my question to ask how many people with no dogs and not in a gated community do not lock the doors.
Okay, first of all the chance of hitting snake eyes with one roll of the dice is 1/36, or 2.78%. Agreed?
For a 1.4% chance per year, figured for a two year stint, you would take .986, square it, and subtract the result from 100. Which is…2.78%.
So again: looks to me like uncannily close to the same odds as having a “lottery” type deal every two years where you roll two dice, hoping for no snake eyes.
And while it’s true that the odds in a given year are independent from the others, this is basically accounted for. After all, the odds are also independent in a day or an hour. You could get broken into more than once in a year, but these numbers provide the essential probability (while also not accounting for various complicating factors, including the possibility that leaving a door open may increase your risk) to any reasonable level given that this is an inherently fuzzy issue of criminology, not civil engineering or something.
(I think I’m doing the math right here; but if I’m not, I’m sure someone here of all places will let me know.)
Me. I didn’t mention a dog and I didn’t lock until bedtime prior to having one. No gated community either.
You seem to be working really hard to make not locking up immediately something that needs exceptional explanation-
Philosophical stance
Gated community
Barky dog
Some of just don’t worry about it for perfectly mundane reasons, and that’s ok.
I keep the back door locked either way.
Hell yes!
Nope, no dogs. No gated community.
It’s not really a philosophical thing so much as habit and an assessment there’s no good reason to lock and plenty of good reasons to unlock including convenience, fresh air, no feeling of being worried or afraid when the doors are unlocked/open, and disliking the feeling of being ‘locked in’. It might be even be that I’m a little bit claustrophobic I guess. I like having the windows open and I hate sleeping with the bedroom door shut.
I do have dogs, now, but prior to their arrival I still didn’t lock my door while awake.
My front door is automatically unopenable from the outside without a key. I find it strange that many people in Dublin have front doors that are as standard openable without a key. If I’m sitting downstairs and it is warm I’ll have the back doors open. If I’m upstairs in the office or lying down I’ll make sure the back doors are closed and locked. A couple of winters ago I was in my office when an intruder, chancing their arm, opened the gate from the front to the back garden and then found the back door open. I didn’t see their face but they were in the landing metres from me before I realised they were an intruder and not a member of my family. It was terrifying. They ran down the stairs when they heard my voice and after a second I ran after them and slammed the back door and bolted it.
He seems really invested in this, doesn’t he? I think he took a stance in a Breaking Bad thread that not locking your door behind you is completely implausible and is trying to salvage that stance.