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.
I don’t lock my door during the day, but I live in a nice doorman building and have a dog. I certainly lock up at night.
“He’s deathly afraid of peacocks.”
Oh yeah, right. Peacocks. Now that I think about it, probably aren’t too many flamingos in Prospect Park.
I left my door unlocked once while I dashed in for a couple of minutes to pick up something I’d forgotten. By the time I got back downstairs my handbag was gone. Yes, I lock.
“Says the Canadian. ;-)”
For CGar,
Toronto:
“With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America… Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)…the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 5,555,912 in the 2006 Census.”
Pardon the interruption…please continue.
“Toronto, in fact, not some Podunk city”
Says the Canadian. 😉
I was a lot more blase about whether or not I’d locked my door when I lived in a fourth-floor walkup. If anyone was going to rob my building, they were going to rob my downstairs neighbors!
Dave’s right. It’s peacocks. *rob* can’t watch NBC, and he won’t ever go to India now that I’ve told him the peacock is the national bird.
“Does anyone remember that AWESOME movie “Bowling for Columbine” where they go across to Canada and everyone keeps their doors unlocked, just because they’re not afraid of the world like we all are?”
I’m born and raised in Canada. Toronto, in fact, not some Podunk city. And I can attest to the fact I never really felt like I had to lock my front door. It might be different since I left there.
My next door neighbour took four months to replace their door and left his screen door unlocked the entire time and didn’t have any problems.
Slopenick…I can agree with you to a degree but I recently had two situations with people on my property lingering around for no reason that made me very uncomfortable. If my doors were unlocked I’m certain one or both of them would have walked right in. Locking my doors is not about being afraid … it’s about protecting my property and my family.