Do you lock the doors on your car and/or home?

[MADem]

83. I do not lock my car in winter. I don't leave anything worth stealing in it, though, either.

It is over a quarter century old and the locks freeze shut when I lock them. I have to play a mad game with WD 40 to try to unlock the damn things--it's just too much of a pain in the ass.

The vehicle is a standard--most thieves can't drive them these days, and why would they want the old thing, anyway? In the winter, they'd have to spend a half hour chipping all the damn ice off the windshield....and the windshield washer distribution mechanism is a bit squirrelly; you've got to know how to play with it to get some fluid over on the driver's side.

Of course, my two Shitting Burglar Alarms (very alert terriers) would be barking to beat the band and wake the neighborhood if anyone tried to make off with my car, too. Plus, as often as not, a household member who locks their car is most often parked behind me in the drive, making it difficult if not impossible to swipe my car.