Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
That's just her way... to be honest, I'm a little naive or stupid, too. I do lock my car if I have something valuable in it, but not if I don't, and I rarely lock my house. I do approach every day life with a certain degree of naivety, but maybe because I kind of subscribe to Janis Joplin's "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." I do have things that I have attachments to, but for the most part, I don't want to own much of anything I'd be upset to lose.

I had a computer stolen out of my car in Vermont and never let it ruin the trip I was on with the kids. I lost a diamond in a my garden, and didn't spend much time looking for it. It's just a rock. And when I lost my wallets and purse in New York, in every case but one, the burglar stole money and then threw the wallet/purse in the mailbox, and I got them back. So you could say they were nice burgler.

I've never owned a security system or one of those car steering wheel locks. In my mind, they're more trouble than they're worth. I lock the doors at night just for peace of mind, but if I go out, "they can steal the rugs from the floor, that's OK by me, cuz the things that I prize, like the stars in the skies all are free."
That’s all very nice, but I wonder if you would act that way if you lived in a high crime neighborhood like mine.


The one time our house was burglarized I can assure you that what they took was the least of it. They ran in and grabbed the TV and left. The Expensive, annoying, and time-consuming problem was that they kicked in the back door —it was a steel door mind you— it came off the frame and then the entire frame had to be fixed. If I’d had to hire that done that would’ve been a job that was well over $1000. Fortunately that was something that DH can fix. Unfortunately he was getting ready to go out of town that afternoon so he boarded up the doorway so that no one could get in or out including me, and I had to use the front door for several days.

Guess the lesson here so I should leave all my doors unlocked when I’m gone. Hmmmm.