At a local trampoline park filled with people of all ages, I left all our coats and shoes, including two pairs of UGGs, a pair of Michael Kors sneakers, and a leather jacket, unattended in complete certainty that nobody would take them. A young dad left his laptop and walked over to the basketball hoops from where the laptop isn’t visible. There are two unattended Stanley cups whose owners are certain they’ll be there when they come back.
It’s not abnormal or immoral to want to live like this.
We live “in town” in a neighborhood that’s pretty OK. But you still have to lock up your bikes in your own carport. And in the almost a year since we moved in, we have had a trash can stolen. Still better than our old neighborhood, where we had two bikes and a tricycle, a trash can, and a brand new lug wrench stolen.
Meanwhile, we drive just a few miles “out” of town to meet up with the kids’ friends at the park, and they have, more than once, forgotten toys at the park one week, and returned to the park the next week and found the toys still there.
Coincidentally, none of the city bus routes go out that direction.
It’d be nice to have that, for sure.
-ethyl
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