Are You A No Lock Person?
The Home section of The New York Times is doing a story about city people who refuse to lock the front doors to their homes or apartments and may have had problems because of it. If you have a story email jwadler@nytimes.com. We need not use your full name.
The Home section of The New York Times is doing a story about city people who refuse to lock the front doors to their homes or apartments and may have had problems because of it. If you have a story email jwadler@nytimes.com. We need not use your full name.
How many times have I come out of my apartment in the mornings and seen keys dangling from some neighbor’s apartment? Both the very young and quite old are prone to this.
I always knock or ring the door and point it out, you know, just in case they are going nuts looking for their keys inside.
Do I leave the door unlocked?
sure I do. and I like to leave the door somewhat ajar.
…I like to encourage wanderers.
My ex’s parents used to always leave the door to their apt in Jackson Heights unlocked even when they weren’t home. One day someone walked in (naturally) and took all the jewelry that was sitting out on the bedside table, including some things handed down from their parents. As far as I know, they still leave the door unlocked when they’re home.
“Wait, did DIBS just as US to stay on topic?
That is as surprising as Rob correcting Montrose Morris yesterday!”
It’s an alternate Brownstoner, Biff, like the alternate 1955 in Back to the Future II, in which the character, Biff, as it happens, runs the town, sort of like our Biff.
Ysabelle, as I posted above at 11:34, you de seem exceptionally neurotic.
rf, I love that story. You painted a movie.
My father always left the keys in the unlocked car (used to leave it in the ignition but eventually started leaving it in the sun visor over the windshield on the driver’s side). One day the car was stolen from in front of the house (in Hicksville, Long Island, working-class suburb). The thieves ran out of gas about 3 blocks away and left the car in the middle of the street.
We never had a key to that house. He sold it after my mother died, in 1983, and now fights daily with my stepmother about her fixation with locking the door in her house in Seaford, another LI suburb. He doesn’t lock the car but takes the keys with him into the house.
“A dangerous Predator is on the loose in California”…would that be the Governator?
on-topic: when I’m at home I rarely lock the outer door and sometimes not the inner one which requires a good shove to latch. I don’t have an alarm system or bars on the back door (as most on my block don’t). So I guess it depends on where you live.
Otoh, on Garfield bet 7/8, a friend’s garden-level apt was broken into by some one simply bashing on the door hard enough to shatter the deadbolt catch (now reinforced with steel) and a TV stolen in broad daylight. How do you walk away with a 26” flat screen withouth anyone noticing?
NYC is PSYCHO-CITY/ Forget the person who posted the inquiry.
It is necessary to lock your door.
Yea…Wife-in-law my bitch for the triflin whore.