You turn onto your street after the grocery run, pull into the driveway and sit a minute with your phone. The headlights that have been behind you since the store slow down at the curb, just past your house.

After 31 years of never pulling up to a building without looking at it first, here are the 5 things I do before I turn into my own driveway: how I read my street, the mirror check before the last turn (and why I'll drive right past my own house), what I look at on the house itself, the rule for the garage door, and the one minute almost everybody spends in the car that they shouldn't.

Tell me in the comments: which of these five did you do the last time you pulled into your driveway?

Everything here is public, legal, and about protecting yourself and your home.

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