The Locking Habit
A car is stolen. Prom the victim goes up a heart-rending, blood-curdling and nerve-rasping scream of agony. And with amazing frequency the yelp of pain tails off into: “I didn’t lock the oar.” Well, why didn’t ho lock it? The locking habit foils many a thief, and habit is easy to form. Let a man make up his mind to lock his oar eveiy time he parks it, let him retrace his steps and go back to look it every time he has forgotten to do so, and in a few days his hand will automatically go to his pocket for his keys and attend to the locking while he is figuring out how to make an extra thousand pounds before lunch. There is no excuse for inviting a thief to steal a car. There is no excuse for not forming a protective habit.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6625, 11 August 1931, Page 2
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