We lived in a nice neighborhood. I had a key and dad always made sure everything was locked at night. He sure as hell didn't leave his keys in the car either. That's some careless ass shit.
Lived in a small town,in the middle of nowhere. No drug addicts in those days. Why bother taken keys out,if no one is stealing cars? And it wasn't just us, everyone in town was the same.so you lived in a shithole that looks nice not a nice neighborhood.
LOL, I grew up in a small town in the north and people not only left their keys in the car, but they also left their cars running in the parking lot, unlocked, when they went into the grocery store during cold winter months!
The key that started the car was also the key that unlocked the car and there were no key fobs or automatic locks. So if you wanted your car warm when you came back, and if you wanted to avoid it not starting, you just kept her running.
If you wanted your window down, you rolled it down. No automatic anything. If you really had your shit together you hid a coat hanger in the wheel well so if you accidentally locked your car with the keys inside, or with the car running, you could fish the coat hanger through the window and snag the lock and pull it up.
A very different time!
Rocky IV, Top Gun, Spies Like Us, Red Dawn... Reagan Cold War Kids had it all!
I didn’t have a key, but there was one hidden outside in a special place. I was trained to get the key, get into the house, lock the door behind me, then walk through the house to the back and put the key where it belonged.
I never had a key to our house, and I never saw my parrents lock the door. And we never took the keys out of the car.
We lived in a nice neighborhood. I had a key and dad always made sure everything was locked at night. He sure as hell didn't leave his keys in the car either. That's some careless ass shit.
Lived in a small town,in the middle of nowhere. No drug addicts in those days. Why bother taken keys out,if no one is stealing cars? And it wasn't just us, everyone in town was the same.so you lived in a shithole that looks nice not a nice neighborhood.
Ah! You must have grown up in the era I grew up in. Miss those days.
LOL, I grew up in a small town in the north and people not only left their keys in the car, but they also left their cars running in the parking lot, unlocked, when they went into the grocery store during cold winter months!
The key that started the car was also the key that unlocked the car and there were no key fobs or automatic locks. So if you wanted your car warm when you came back, and if you wanted to avoid it not starting, you just kept her running.
If you wanted your window down, you rolled it down. No automatic anything. If you really had your shit together you hid a coat hanger in the wheel well so if you accidentally locked your car with the keys inside, or with the car running, you could fish the coat hanger through the window and snag the lock and pull it up.
A very different time!
Rocky IV, Top Gun, Spies Like Us, Red Dawn... Reagan Cold War Kids had it all!
Our neighbor had two grills stolen out of their backyard in the summer of 1982. He cemented the third one in.
Neighbor down the street had their whole lawn stolen overnight. They had a crew install sod the day before.
Almost makes one wonder if the crew that installed the lawn by day removed the lawn by night.
Just think. You could reuse that sod over and over and make some bank. LOL
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Starting to wonder if you lived in my neighborhood.
I didn’t have a key, but there was one hidden outside in a special place. I was trained to get the key, get into the house, lock the door behind me, then walk through the house to the back and put the key where it belonged.
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Same