Good or Bad Tip?

Put your car keys beside your bed at night

Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, your Dr's office, the check-out girl at the market, everyone you run across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night.

If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies.

This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain.

It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't stick around. After a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that.

And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.

Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can't reach a phone. My Mom has suggested to my Dad that he carry his car keys with him in case he falls outside and she doesn't hear him. He can activate the car alarm and then she'll know there's a problem.

Okay this was the tip and you read it, right? Now, thanks to my sister and the gals at Curves the following comments will really get you to thinking about whether this tip is good or not:

• Great, while I am being raped, beaten and my house ransacked the car horn is blasting away and my neighbors are thinking “when is that ole lady gonna shut that horn off?”
  
• I live in the country, who in hell is gonna hear a horn blasting?
• If I did that, the keys would fall on my bed, I would roll over on them, my neighbors would call and say, “Put the keys back on the stand and shut that damn horn off!”
• Shit, I’d never remember how to turn that panic button off so I refuse to turn it on, are you nuts! Bring it on, come and get me!
• Who in hell doesn’t carry their keys to their car – what, you think we’d leave them at the counter – how friggin old are we anyway?
• Great! I tested this tip, horn blasted forever before I figured out how to shut it off and then, guess what, the damn battery was dead – forget it, alarm my arse!
  

So thar you have it, friends, now you decide. Hey, if nothing else it made ya smile, right?