#23 – Suspicious
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
That car out front is someone checking out the layout of my yard so they know where all the bushes are when they come to break in after I fall asleep. That dude sitting across from me on the subway is waiting for me to look away so he can steal my backpack. That crow is sitting on the same branch everyday and its head follows me as I walk by.
Tags: car, locks, paranoid
I always press the “Lock” button on my car remote at least 5 times after exiting my car. Sometimes I do that and STILL worry that I left my car unlocked…
What will you do when you hear the rumors that thieves can use a device to “listen” to the electronic code when you press your remote, then get into your car without breaking anything? 😛
Just use the key? Speaking of which, my father recently rented a car for work (he has to visit a location for days at a time occasionally). This car strangely enough, had no key, just the remote. You actually just push a button (inside the car) to start the car. Doesn’t seem very smart to me.
which company?
simple solution: never lock your car.
(I admit, this can actually cause more problems in the city/suburbs)
um…um…yeah, you’re not alone.
You never are. There’s always someone or something following you.
If it makes you feel better, my daughter once neglected to close her car door properly while we were parked in downtown San Francisco for six hours and nothing was stolen.
I also lock the car by pressing the “lock all doors” button on the driver’s door while it’s still open so I can see all the locks close, then I check to see that I have my keys in my pocket instead of the seat before closing the driver’s door and walking away
So true. I always end up walking half a block back to press the car remote to make sure its locked.
Our teacher friend (once she left Alaska) works in/on Tinian, a twenty-mile island with two thousand people (think Small Town) in the Northern Marianas (15oN, 145oW, best known as the launch point for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs). Many people there leave their keys in the car, and just don’t worry about it. Sometimes it helps, if a neighbor has to get to the hospital. Crime there is… different. Cattle rustlers, smuggling at the beach.
My sister’s inlaws leave their keys in their cars and leave the doors unlocked, though all their cars but one are junkers. But they also expect people to just walk into their house (which they leave unlocked) unannounced…
Paranoia is not a mental illness… it’s a life skill. :3