Quote Originally Posted by lamin8r View Post
I can remember those days,when the back door of the house was not locked at night,we left the keys in the car,usually,and everything was safe lying around outside,,cos most people were honest..Nowadays,some people would steal the eye out of ya winkie,if they thought they could benefit by it...The amount of bogus phone calls we get now,,usually from the same sector of the worlds population...is criminal..The computer fault calls started some time ago,,but we have only just started to get them..possibly because when I am working,the answer phone picks up the calls if I am lamin8ing....
I'm not sure if my mom ever locked a front door in her life except when they went on holiday. All of the neighbors knew each other and woe to any stranger in the neighborhood. We back up to some pretty thick woods but they do have some nice paths and not too far away is a major US interstate highway - and there are a few weirdo's that have come wandering through our yard. We not only lock the doors, but have a very good monitored alarm system. I hate it - but it's life now. Several of our neighbors have been burglarized (both sides of us) too but those window stickers seem to have helped. Phones - we have caller ID and if a call come in with no information, I wont answer it. If they identify themselves and leave a message, I'll call back. So far we haven't had the Asiatic callers, but I had a bazillion dollar a minute response to a Craigslist ad from a Caribbean island a couple weeks ago - you call back and get charged lots. Then there are the Nigerian princes and their "419 Scams". Computer problems - if you have a PC, you have a potential problem or 50 waiting to eat the hard drive. The only time my lap top got infected so far, I got a bunch of porno - BARF