[...] what amazed me was that it was safe to leave a car unlocked.
Clay's daughter lives in a town that's bigger than my own "Lextropolis", so I'm glad to hear that it's safe to leave the car unlocked there too. Here, most people don't; it's pointless, if you leave your windows open. And you leave your windows open, because you don't want to "fry" on coming back to it... I lock my new car (VW Passat) and close the windows, but I can open the windows with the key, from the outside, before getting into it. With the old car (Toyota Camry), I *lost* the key which would unlock it (the ignition had been changed, so I needed two keys -- one for driving, one for the doors), and didn't find it for over a year... Jacqui Southworth was visiting during that time, and she was astounded every time we emerged from a shop and the car would still be there, windows open, an' all... :)
In 30 yrs I've been here, I've never heard of a car being either stolen or "borrowed" for a joy-ride, even though we have the full spectrum of them -- from almost wrecks to super-dooper luxury ones.
We started locking our house doors about 14 yrs ago, after a rash of robberies in town, but, even now, Severn't not all that careful about locking them *all* (there are 5 of them)...
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