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Living with PN, do you find yourself retreating from life?

Neuropathy | Last Active: Mar 5 10:44am | Replies (144)

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Hi, Barb. Dook locks, special keys, garage door openers – oh, my! 🙂 I'm reminded of my childhood in the Bronx. My mom and dad were super-security conscious. Back then (in the Cenozoic?) we didn't have any such sophisticated lock-up devices. My mom and dad had a series of bolt locks on our door. Every night I'd hear the clack, clunk, ka-chink, click as they went through locking the locks, one by one. I was spoiled by moving out here, to a quiet mountain town. At first, it was a surprise to see how neighbors went about: leaving their bicycles and/or x-country skis propped up outside of shops, unlocked, just standing there; and to learn that at home hardly anyone locked their front doors. Even though I now live in a metropolitan area, I still often go off on errands, forgetting to lock my front door. It's a leftover forgetfulness of living in a sleepy mountain town. 🙂 –Ray

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@ray666 I remember those days, even growing up in a suburb of Chicago. I think we even went on vacation not locking the door as we left. And a few years ago I drove across the state to visit a friend who had moved and we went out for a day of shopping and lunch. By this time, locking our houses here had become the only sane thing to do, but in her little town, it had not become that, yet. As we left, I reminded her to lock the door and she looked surprised. I asked if she wasn't afraid someone might come in and steal something and she replied that no, but someone might come in and leave something. Sure enough, when we returned, hours later, there was a box of fresh, garden-grown strawberries on the kitchen counter. How times have changed!