Phil,

My grand parents never locked their home either in the small town in
Oklahoma where they lived.  It was well in to my teen years before I
remember them saying that they supposed they should start locking up.  Then
they only did it about half the time at that.  It did finally become
standard.  Had that happened in the city, they' likely have had nothing in
that home to come home to.

Vicki


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 11:03 PM
Subject: Life Is Different


> When I was in grade school back in the early and mid sixties, our
elementary
> school had over 600 students.  Everything was very clean and there were
few
> problems.  In fact, I got to ride my bike to school because I was one of
the
> patrol traffic officers.  So I got to help the kids across the street.  I
> really liked it, too.  Parking my brand new bike at the outside bicycle
> rack, I never locked it and neither did anybody else.  No bike was ever
> stolen.  Each kid had is own individual locker with no locks on them.  In
> fact, I put a combination bike lock on my locker one day and when it was
> reported, they made me remove it.  By the time I got to high school,
lockers
> were shared by three kids and each locker had a combination padlock.  You
> were lucky if your car wasn't stolen out of the school parking lot when
you
> went home.  Try and tell me things haven't changed.
>
> Phil.