Pop - N - Lock

Alright, so tonight I drive home to go visit the family and when I get there, as usual the door is locked. This really ticked me off for some reason and I nearly Chuck Norrissed the door. So as I sit inside and do my paper, because much to my surprise no one is home (sarcasm) I begin to think about why the locking of the doors makes me so mad. I think I can break it down like this.

We live in a fairly wealthy part of town, we're rockin the suburbs. Well, we have a little history of "stuff" go on in our neighborhood - like eight years ago the house that abuts our back yard got broken into while they were on vacation...other than that, there hasn't really been much burglary.

I think about this situation where we are very safe and yet we still use every precaution imaginable. I also think that some of this stems from the media (I know a cliche topic - how the media influences us) and I don't mean in the typical Duke Nukem causing kids to go around and blow up aliens syndrom. I mean I was listening to "Country ain't country no more" on the way to my house and there is a line that says:

The back forty (acres) was sold to make up for hard times
Then sold by the half acre lot overnight
The houses went up and the trees were cut down
And there went the finest deer huntin' around
Lord everyone's lockin' their doors
'Cause country ain't country no more.

Perhaps, this is just the culture we live in - one where people are so ready to steal it becomes ignorant, immature, and irresponsible to leave one's door unlocked. Perhaps, there is no longer the trust of humanity to lay down at night with the windows open. If this is the case, I'm sorry. I'm sorry because every night of my life I will sleep with my doors open. If my things get taken, then I will live with the hope that the robber simply needed them more than I did. But, if they don't I'll be irreparably upset that the world lacks the trust to sleep with the doors open.