Comme Il Faut

[bcholmes]

Walking through the parking lot at the customer site the other day, I noticed that a car had left its headlights on.

When I was growing up, my father would commonly walk up to such cars, open the door, turn off the headlights, close the door and then continue walking. That was just The Right Thing To Do.

My car has doors that lock automatically when I wander away from it. But it also has headlights that turn off automatically.

Comments

[tormenta.livejournal.com]

I'm young. It has never occured to me the doors could be unlocked.

Wow.

[purplesofa.livejournal.com]

The idea of opening a stranger's car door never occured to me either. How intrusive!

However, my family still does not lock car doors in their own driveway. For some reason, their little town feels safe from car theft. Now that I think about this, it's pretty dumb and the insurance company might have an opinion on it too.