Re[2]: [at-l] weight/use efficiency & Guns

[ackenglass@hotmail.com (Alexis Lee Acken)]

That's how I grew up.  My parents don't have locks on the doors of the
house.  When they moved in to the house, it had one of those old skeleton
key type locks but it never worked right and then it froze up entirely.  And
at that point, the back door was a tarp so my dad just took the lock out and
there hasn't been one since.  Of course, it's back a mile long dirt driveway
and you have to get out of your car and open two gates to drive through and
the dogs always meet you at the gates.  And they're big dogs.  And there's a
really nasty goat....

But being in the habit of never locking doors, I still don't.  Well,
actually, I never lock the door when I'm not here although I do when I go to
bed at night.  I know it doesn't make sense.  It helps to have a mean
looking, and sounding dog though.  But I don't lock my car either.  Maybe
because I'd just manage to lock myself out.


> >  Well we locked our doors for a day or two when
> > someone stole our stereo 10 or
> >  15 years ago. But those few days were the only
> > time our doors have been locked
> >  in 40 years of living in this town.
>
> Before I got married and moved to the suburbs, I COULDN'T
> lock the door - I never had the key...
>
> Of course, anyone that far down my dirt road was under the
> watchful eye of several neighbors.  Maybe that's the
> difference.  Out there, I knew everyone within 10 miles on a
> first name basis.  Here, I don't even know what my neighbors
> does for a living...
>
> Shane
>
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