When I was still living with my parents [due to me being a kid] one of the main things I used to get in trouble for was leaving the front door open. To be clear, I don't mean that I would leave the door unlocked, but I would leave our front door wide open [with a screen door in front, but not locked]. I would get into all sorts of trouble for this. However, in my defense I was extremely scatterbrained and also, it was a small town. Highly unlikely that anything would happen [though now it's like the meth capital of the county so it's entirely possible that bad things would happen]. Since moving to the big city though I've been pretty vigilant about locking up whenever I leave the apartment. When we lived in the dodgy high rise I would lock my door while taking rubbish down to the chute.
So today's thing is silly, but meaningful to me. Today I left our door unlocked as I went to the shops. Nothing happened, but I was freaked out the entire time I was away from the house and I checked the closet and stuff when I got home to be sure that no one got in while I was out. Of course, the queues @ the shops were extra long, too. So, you see - Michael Moore was wrong [as he frequently is - I really don't get his insane love of Canada] - Torontonians DO regularly lock their doors [even when in the house during the middle of the day]. Our door is always locked [windows too]...and this little experiment made me freak out too hard to consider changing our policies on this matter.
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I've done this before, but never on purpose. Locking the door when I go into the house is pretty much a reflex for me, but I get messed up when someone follows me in. Once when my sister was visiting, I discovered the next day that not only was the front door unlocked, it was actually open - which is not a good idea in Ottawa in February.
We leave our door open [like open open to the wilds of Toronto] all winter long when we are @ home. The people who control the heating are entirely too fond of high temperatures and it's so unbearable in here.
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