Anonymous
Post 03/21/2013 00:47     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
Anonymous wrote:We never lock our doors. Once, I was sleeping upstairs and forgot that the plumber was coming over to work on our sink. I heard the dog barking but I thought she was barking at the mailman which she does every afternoon. When I got up an hour later, I came downstairs to find that the plumber came right into the house, fixed the sink and left an invoice on the table. I didn't even hear him knock. We called and complained to his boss that he should have rang the doorbell and then tried to call if we weren't answering instead of coming into the house. Our dog could have bitten him. We always put her in her kennel when people come over because she has bitten people before. Ugh! Anyways, even after that incident, we still leave our doors unlocked.


Herd immunity.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2013 00:41     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
Anonymous wrote:Not anxious, but I don't have my pictures on my mac backed up, so instead each morning I "hide" my laptop in the kitchen pots and pans cabinet under a cookie sheet. Burglers can take anything in my house except that computer. I figure they will never ransack my stock pots


My DH thinks I'm nuts. One time I thought my computer was stolen out of the car and I was so hysterical I was shaking and could not speak. Thos pictures me the world to me and I'm an IDIOT that they are not backed up. Complete moron.


I must tell you that I too used to hide my laptop in the cookie sheets, the kind of cabinet where the cookie sheets are vertical. Then we were broken into and lots of stuff stolen (4 in the afternoon). They took my husband's laptop but they didn't find mine. I'm typing on it right now!
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2013 00:35     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
honestly OP, clinically, sounds like you have a form of OCD/anxiety, so some Zoloft might fix you right up. Seriously, on A&E Obsessed, OCD people keep checking things like doors.

http://www.aetv.com/obsessed/episode-guide/


Anonymous
Post 03/21/2013 00:25     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
We never lock our doors. Once, I was sleeping upstairs and forgot that the plumber was coming over to work on our sink. I heard the dog barking but I thought she was barking at the mailman which she does every afternoon. When I got up an hour later, I came downstairs to find that the plumber came right into the house, fixed the sink and left an invoice on the table. I didn't even hear him knock. We called and complained to his boss that he should have rang the doorbell and then tried to call if we weren't answering instead of coming into the house. Our dog could have bitten him. We always put her in her kennel when people come over because she has bitten people before. Ugh! Anyways, even after that incident, we still leave our doors unlocked.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2013 21:59     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
Agree with other PP's that you should probably talk to a professional. this feels like an unhealthy (and potentially crippling) level of anxiety.

I've left my car unlocked at night a few times, left the occasional door unlocked, and apparently went on vacation with two first-floor windows in my house cracked. (that one is on my now-ex roommate.) It bothered me for a moment (and I did check for intruders) but then I was past it. I feel like that is normal.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2013 00:06     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
Oh, my God! Do you have any idea how at risk you've put your FAMILY? YOUR KIDS? Why, this is the MOST UPSETTING thread I''ve EVER seen on DCUM! Call the POLICE! Buy a NEW HOUSE in Bethesda or McLean - the OPPOSITE of the place you live in now! OH MY GOD!

I'm going to go puke now. Thanks for sharing your upsetting tale.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2013 23:35     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You should see a therapist.


This.


Gosh, I thought the same thing.

I live in the city, and I've left my keys in the door overnight dozens and dozens of times when I had a baby and twin toddlers. I felt lucky and stupid, but that's about it.

Anonymous
Post 03/19/2013 23:32     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
Anonymous wrote:I went for a couple years without locking my door when I lived in a fairly low-rent condo. So far as I know nobody ever broke in, though one time the dude from upstairs accidentally walked in, took one look around, and then walked back out without saying a word.


There's another long thread full of people who think you should have shot him for that.

OP, please talk to someone. Your reaction is not normal.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2013 23:04     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
I went for a couple years without locking my door when I lived in a fairly low-rent condo. So far as I know nobody ever broke in, though one time the dude from upstairs accidentally walked in, took one look around, and then walked back out without saying a word.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2013 23:00     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
Anonymous wrote:People, telling OP that you also leave the door open is not going to help her if she thinks someone may have sprayed toxic chemicals on her belongings. You should see a therapist.


+1

Tell your husband, then call your doctor and ask for a referral to a therapist who works with anxiety and OCD. Or just pick one out of your provider list, anxiety is pretty common and any decent therapist should be able to get you started.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2013 23:00     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
HAHAH op, I would think the same thing!! I dont think you need therapy, you just need to tke time and calm down
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2013 22:56     Subject: I forgot to lock the front door
Anonymous wrote:If it makes you feel better, DH left the front door wide-open all day while we were both at work. Twice.


This. He claims DD did it. Only happened once though. Nothing like coming home to your front wide open wondering if people and/or animals have made themselves at home.