I never had a false sense of security....

but this still sucks.

I grew up in the city of Buffalo, NY. I grew up in an okay area but the older I got, the worse it got. I grew up locking doors at night and always locking the car and the last few years my parents lived there, they even locked their doors when they were home during the day.....

My husband grew up in a rural area about 15 miles outside of Buffalo. No one locked doors pretty much ever. He'd laugh at me when I'd lock my car doors in his driveway....habit.

When we got married we moved to the suburbs, pretty much halfway between our childhood homes. I still locked the door every time I got out of it, in our driveway of our quiet dead end street. Even though we had moved into a "safe" town I never let myself fall into false security. Let's face it, there are a$$holes every where you go.

Recently we moved from that tiny starter house into a bigger home in a different part of the same town...closer to a 'better' town actually...right on the border. We're no longer in a dead end street and we get a bit more drive through traffic. My husband still never locks the doors on the vehicles. And yup, last night, someone was in our van. This morning the glove box was open and another compartment too. The center counsel that folds down was down (which we always have things on it so it's never down). And the change that was in our change holder was gone. Luckily that seems to be it. All my cd's were there...(I would be devastated if my NKOTB cd's were stolen!!!!) So I'm guessing the thief was looking for something more valuable....navigation system, etc... We don't have one.

We were lucky but I still can't help but feel violated. Some stranger was in my car, rifling through my things.