CSotD: When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose
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Willy & Ethel pretty much sum it up.
There's a certain type of person out here in the country who will beep the little beeper and lock their car to go into a store or the post office, and everyone turns their heads at the sound.
It's a little insulting, really. We weren't going to rob you. What do you think we are?
But mostly, who do you think you are?
Have you got the Hope Diamond in your glove compartment, or maybe the Ark of the Covenant?
Gimme a break.
Nobody's gonna break into your car and steal your box of Kleenex, your little neck pillow or that Jim Nabors CD.
And I always figure, hey, if somebody wants to break in, just open the door and have a look around. Don't smash the window, too.
As Ethel says, they'll figure it out.
I did have someone go into my car, about 20 years ago, and pull out a bunch of stuff. Most of it was found about two miles away, in a ditch. Somebody called to let me know. A few things never turned up, but it certainly wasn't enough to file a claim, because the total value was less than my deductible.
I don't even have that car anymore. The stuff inside would have been long gone by now anyway.
When I was living in western Maine a few years ago, I was reporting on a murder in the very small town of New Portland, which has just under 800 people spread over just under 44 square miles of rolling hills and forest. I was trying to ascertain whether the murder had been a robbery or perhaps a quarrel, or whether it was random.
There aren't a lot of random murders anywhere, and fewer still in the country, but, still, people need to know whether they should be scared or not, and I told the police investigator this. I didn't want information that would compromise the investigation, just a hint of whether it had been personal or if there were some kind of homicidal maniac wandering around.
His response was that "whether you're in Portland or New Portland, you should always lock your doors."
Later, I was talking to some people at the post office, trying to get a sense of things, and I mentioned that crime-fighting tip. They all laughed at the idea, saying they didn't even lock their houses when they went on vacation, and one man remarked, "If I ever locked my doors, I'd have to break into the house myself. I've got no idea where the keys are."
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