Gary and Barb couldn’t wait to bring their new baby daughter, Carla, home from the hospital. They’d been preparing since they day they found out Barb was pregnant. Gary baby-proofed their whole house, even installing new floors. He capped off his planning by installing a new security system with motion detectors throughout the house.

For the first few months, everything was great. Carla slept well through the night, which meant that Gary and Barb enjoyed a lot more sleep than most new parents.

About six months later, Gary and Barb started losing sleep. Their security system would go off, for no reason, in the middle of the night.

The first time it happened, Barb bolted out of bed toward the baby’s room while Gary wielded a bowling trophy in the hallway. No robbers, though, fortunately. They assumed it was a problem with the system and went back to bed.

The second night it happened, Gary just switched the system off. It took Barb almost two hours to get Carla back to sleep. And by that time, Gary was supposed to be getting up for work anyway.

The alarm installer showed up the next morning with a set of diagnostics. After racking up about two hours worth of service fees, he declared nothing wrong with the system.

That night, Gary and Barb fought over who would have to get out of bed to shut off their useless alarm system.

The next day, Gary tried to enjoy a round of golf with Barb’s dad. When Gary explained his fatigue, his father-in-law stopped him short.

"Wait a second," interrupted the retired executive, "you have motion detectors? In a BABY’s room?"

He explained that the moment the baby stirs in her sleep, the super-sensitive motion sensors treat her the same as a criminal trying to break in to the house. Instead, he suggested, they could try a device he used when his job sent him overseas.

"I would hang my Keep-I on the hotel room door," he explained. "Instead of watching you, it keeps an eye on the air pressure in your room. Any time someone tried to break in, that thing would practically wake the dead. So while my buddies all got their wallets stolen from those cheesy hotels, I slept just fine."

A few days later, Gary unpacked his new Keep-I and hung it from the inside of Carla’s bedroom door. He played with the window to see if he could fool the machine - to no luck. It caught him every time.

The middle of the night wake-ups ended. Knowing that his family was safe from intruders, Gary slept as well as his father-in-law in those foreign hotels - just fine.

Yours in safety, Mitch McDonald

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Lacy waited tables at a hip little bistro a few blocks from her apartment. Though she loved her neighborhood, she always prepared for the unexpected.

One night, one of the diners got a little out of hand. She could put up with rude customers, and she could even tolerate patrons who had a little too much to drink. She and her boss agreed that anyone who tried to lay hands on her or on any of the wait staff would end up enjoying the rest of their meal "to go."

So her boss ejected a customer who looked like a rumpled college professor after he tried to pinch Lacy’s bottom. The guy created a huge stink, but the customers applauded when he fell down the steps and landed on the sidewalk with a thud.

Later that night, after Lacy banked out and counted her tip money, she headed back down the street to her place. She thought she heard footsteps behind her, but saw nobody when she swung around.

Another block away from the restaurant, she thought she heard a trash can rattle. Still, she couldn’t see anyone in the shadows.

Only a few steps away from her building’s front door, Lacy heard someone sneeze. She whipped around to see the drunken customer from earlier that night.

He lunged at her, shouting, "I’ll show you!"

Instead of bolting for the door - she wouldn’t have made it in time, anyway - she pulled out her keys. Instead of a usual keychain, Lacy carries a Mace Pepper Baton. It’s small enough to fit in a purse, and durable enough to inflict pain on an attacker.

As the drunken patron grabbed for her hair, Lacy ducked down and slammed the Pepper Baton across his kneecap. Wincing in pain, he buckled over and made another swipe at her. She retaliated by holding onto the baton and swinging her keys against his face.

Stumbling, the attacker made one last grab. Lacy pointed the baton at him, unleashing its secret weapon - a blast of debilitating pepper spray.

Lacy’s attacker crouched on the sidewalk while she dialed 9-1-1 on her cell phone.

"Next time," Lacy said, "stick to what’s on the menu."

Yours in safety, Mitch McDonald

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