Do you lock your doors?

[chrisinhouston]

On Saturday my wife and I had to be gone most of the day and since my son was also gone for the weekend and the wife's car was being repaired we had no vehicles in our driveway and I decided to lock the door.

I realized that we keep our front door locked all the time and the storm door in front of it but rarely lock the back door which is the one we always use. I think we lock it about half the time at night, the wife tends to let the dog out before bed so I think she locks it because it is usually locked when I let the dog out first thing in the morning. However we rarely lock it during the day. I come and go during week days as I run out to do errands and we do have a gate across the drive way that we keep shut. We live in a fairly upscale neighborhood where the crime rate isn't too bad. You read about the occasional break in but we just don't feel too vulnerable because of our big gate I guess. We also have a dog who barks but she is pretty friendly so I don't think she is much of a deterrent.

If I plan to be gone all day and especially if the public schools are out I tend to lock the door. I guess I just figure kids might be more apt to cause some mischief. But most of the time the door is unlocked.