Re: [at-l] officially

["W F Thorneloe, MD" <thornel@attglobal.net>]

In Western Carolina, locking a door was putting on airs, as if you had 
something to hide or keep from your neighbors. With the windows open 
anyway, there was just no point in locking things up.

And now I live in Atlanta and get upset when my girls come home and leave 
the garage door up. I've got to retire!

OrangeBug

At 08:07 PM 7/26/2000, Gary Ticknor wrote:
>The convention in our homeplace home town in East Carolina is to lock the 
>front
>door to show you're not at home (people generally just open it if it's closed
>and shout Yoo-hoo - anyone home? - this saves them the trouble) but to 
>leave the
>kitchen door unlocked in case anyone needs to get in. It's a trusting sort of
>place.

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