Curb Appeal
(02/21/13 10:24am)
The lamp at the front of the house, in the atrium, by the window, stays on. Another tract home in an upscale subdivision, somewhere in the mush of Middle America sprawl. In this house the lamp stays on. To ward off potential crime, to give the impression that someone is home, even when they are. This is the reason given. Shut the garage door, set the sprinkler system, pick up the mail, check the lamp.