If you go anywhere for more than a few days, squatters might move in. Then, since the authorities won’t do anything about it, you end up not only losing your house, but still having to pay the mortgage. It’s outrageous, but it’s happening.
Our Heyburn grade school, which was built in 1925, in our small town put dowel pieces ever couple of feet on the banisters, so that kids can’t slide down them.
Don’t you think that maybe he was joking?