Well, crud...you had me so discombobulated that I lost my reply to you so I had to start all over again!!!!
Let's just say that why yes, I AM sitting in my nice A/C house with the front door locked (not back door though since the youngest is outside playing in the backyard)....but it can't be THAT hot where you are....
Should I do my one uppmanship? I was 6 months pregnant at Girl Scout daycamp during extreme heat index warnings and we all survived. If I recall, I even took the big boys on a hike to the police station for a tour (of course, we DID call for a van to pick us up because we wouldn't have made the walk BACK....too hot!!!!).
and back on topic, I think location really makes all the difference in the world plus just whatever you are comfortable with. If I lived out in the middle of a farm with several acres or where my sister lives (she LITERALLY lives in an area that really no strangers are going to go there -- they would never find the place or their way back out -- down a one car dirt road that they don't even get garbage service or anything! Frankly I would be afraid if anything really did happen there because I don't even think emergency personnel could get back there!! They did have an easier access until the floods on the East Coast washed out their bridge). I would see absolutely no need to lock the doors there at all even at night really.
Well - I'll let you off this time - but don't let it happen again..
Ironically, all three of my pregnancies (many, many years ago) were in the summer - same late august due date for all three of my kids - and for some reason the heat bothered me much less when I was pregnant.. (Had lots more energy too..
)Now I'm just old - tired - hot - and my door is usually unlocked.. I figure a criminal would take one look at me and they would run in the other direction..
