No one locks car doors or wears seatbelts around here??

I'm house-sitting, and therefore have a temporary vehicle. It's been great! I can finally take my car-less friends for "drives"! (Apparently this is a cool thing to do around here when you have time to kill... never mind that there aren't a whole lot of options in terms of roads to explore) The following options are those that I am aware of at this point:

• The road to the dump and the place everyone launches boats / snowmobiles / dog teams from (which I discovered by accident while trying to find Sylvia Grinell)
• The road network around Sylvia Grinell recreation area and river - a great spot for fishing
  
• The road up to the old US army base... incredibly they dismantled EVERYTHING up there when they packed up and left and all you can see is concrete bases where buildings used to be and the bottom halves of telephone polls.
  
• The road to Apex, a short drive to a little community just out of town (where the locals were re-located to be on the other side of the hill so that they wouldn't become involved with the army men at the base - did someone really think a short drive was going to keep a whole group of men away from the only women around?!)
• The "road to nowhere", which gets you.... you guessed it! Nowhere! It randomly ends about 3 miles out. It's quite a nice run! Very pretty.
  

Anyway, so not being quite in tune to the make and model of my temporary vehicle, I tend to look for "red SUV". That's exactly what I did when I came out from the gym one day, and to my surprise, found that I had hopped into the WRONG red SUV! How embarrassing! I hopped right out, laughing at my mistake. I got into the right vehicle, and then realized that whoever's car that was had left it unlocked. I looked to the car to my left, and sure enough, all the doors were also unlocked. hmmm...... Is it not cool to lock your doors or is there really no concern that anything in them will disappear? (In which case I think this is fantastic!)

Other funny experiences I have had in vehicles involve my continued attempts to try to buckle myself in, despite the fact that often seatbelts are either broken ("you might not want to do that... it probably won't let you out after!") or not present or permanently buckled, so that you can slip the chest strap over you and make it look like you're buckled up even though you're clearly not and the belt is in no way protecting you! I tried to explain to my room mate that it was habit, I couldn't forget to buckle up, I did it automatically, kind of like how you automatically wipe your bum... you just don't forget some things!

I am not all too optimistic that I'm going to start any kind of seatbelt wearing trend around here based on the reaction I get just from struggling to wear my own!