A couple of years ago, our friends were victims of a break-in.
This should not be confused with break dancing, which I did at first. I have difficulty picturing them actually doing break dance moves. It's not even a matter of whether they could actually do the moves, I just have difficulty picturing my friends doing them. It hurts my brain and couldn't be pretty.
What's more, now I am picturing the criminals doing break dance moves as they break into the house. Can you see them moonwalking across the living room floor to the DVD player and stereo? Then doing the worm into the front room to steal some art?
By the way, does it count as a break-in if the back door is left unlocked? Technically speaking, the thief (or thieves) didn't break anything in order to gain entrance into the house.
Regardless, Nicki and I felt it would be a good time to have a discussion about safety and security with our kids and why it is important to lock the doors as you come in the house. Or, perhaps even more importantly, as you leave it.
References below to our friends' names have been changed to protect the innocent - or stupid, depending on your perspective - since they left their back door unlocked and I don't want to tip off the entire criminal world to a family whose home is an easy target. This is a very real concern since such a large portion of the readership of this blog comes from the criminal world or is otherwise tied to it.
Nicki: "Suzie & Marcus just had their house broke into. We don't want that to happen us."
During a slight pause, which involved some interesting mental processing on the part of our then-7-year-old, Nick interjected, "That's right. We don't want OUR house to get split in two."
