roundcorners_IHB
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I can't seem to find a similar thread about a general sense of safety so here it is. This is mainly to follow-up on Freedom CMs comment on the need for renter?s insurance. Specifically I?m wondering if you ever had anything stolen, lost (and not returned) or have any crime of theft or otherwise ever happened to you in Irvine.
I?m not usually careless or naive, but like I said before I don?t usually lock my car if I?m running to Ralph?s for a couple of items. I never lock my car when getting gas or running into the convenience store. I don?t lock my car running other errands around Irvine; including getting a haircut; Starbucks; lunch or running in and out of doctor?s offices for work. The main reason is that my hands are usually full, my car remote is broken, and I can almost usually park so that I can keep an eye on the car.
Again I don?t usually take unnecessary chances, but I lost count the number of times we left the garage door open; and my wife now impose that I check the front door at night after I?m snug in bed, because I forgot to lock the door a few times.
My wife is not usually absent minded; however she left her purse at three separate Starbucks on thee occasions. Each time she was able to recover the purse after going back. Two times the workers simply kept the purse for her; while the last time a patron made sure we came back to claim it, after more than thirty minutes! Who does that? In any other city, the purse would have been long gone.
We have found lost cell phones and returned it to the rightful owner; I?ve retrieved USB drives, sweaters, jackets and back packs from parks, tennis courts and play ground and either turned it in or found the owners myself.
This is an extraordinary city, and the people in it are honest, and upright. We can speculate that it is due to the social-economic-education status or simply we take pride in taking care of each other here; but I believe people here look out for one another. Sorry I wanted to attach a poll, but I?m way too busy and tired these days with the baby? (some of you are cheering!)
I?m not usually careless or naive, but like I said before I don?t usually lock my car if I?m running to Ralph?s for a couple of items. I never lock my car when getting gas or running into the convenience store. I don?t lock my car running other errands around Irvine; including getting a haircut; Starbucks; lunch or running in and out of doctor?s offices for work. The main reason is that my hands are usually full, my car remote is broken, and I can almost usually park so that I can keep an eye on the car.
Again I don?t usually take unnecessary chances, but I lost count the number of times we left the garage door open; and my wife now impose that I check the front door at night after I?m snug in bed, because I forgot to lock the door a few times.
My wife is not usually absent minded; however she left her purse at three separate Starbucks on thee occasions. Each time she was able to recover the purse after going back. Two times the workers simply kept the purse for her; while the last time a patron made sure we came back to claim it, after more than thirty minutes! Who does that? In any other city, the purse would have been long gone.
We have found lost cell phones and returned it to the rightful owner; I?ve retrieved USB drives, sweaters, jackets and back packs from parks, tennis courts and play ground and either turned it in or found the owners myself.
This is an extraordinary city, and the people in it are honest, and upright. We can speculate that it is due to the social-economic-education status or simply we take pride in taking care of each other here; but I believe people here look out for one another. Sorry I wanted to attach a poll, but I?m way too busy and tired these days with the baby? (some of you are cheering!)
